On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:25:13 -0800, Gunner wrote:
> On 14 Dec 2007 18:34:44 GMT, Bert Hyman <bert@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>gunner@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Gunner) wrote in
>>news:hli5m3pl9h4vur31u242m8pstl6mo0ir4h@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Why would you consider faith in something to be solely a negative?
>>
>>Faith is simply the act of believing something without proof, or even
>>the possibility of proof.
>>
>>In a religious context, believing something without the possibility of
>>proof is taken as a virtue; asking for proof is considered a sin.
>
> Odd...I have a number of Jesuits in the family. They all consider asking
> for proof to be the sign of an intelligent person.
Yet you bash atheists for doing so.
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Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”
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