Originally posted by: E equals MC2
nothing. faith is synonymous with ignorance.
truth is relative. do you honestly think christians would honestly drop their belief and cease to exist?
this applies to all religions, not christianity in particular.
I am going to wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. Faith is not synonymous with ignorance, I think it's the opposite. You don't put your faith in something that has shown you no return. At all. The bible specifically says that we will love God because He loved us first. Which shows that we recieved from Him before we even put anything into it. That looks like a rational decision to me.
The more faith you have in something is pretty much related to the amount of trust you have in it, based on your experiences with it. And trust is related to the amount of truth.
I'm going to have to go out and say that absolute truth isn't relative at all, which is what the whole religious faith is based off of, or it should be for that matter. There are things in life that should be intuitive, and if they aren't, then once the understanding comes, you can see the wisdom in them. For instance, not murdering. That makes life a lot easier, because you don't have to worry about being killed for the reason that the people around you usually won't do that because it's not right (an absolute truth). Even in places where you do see it where murder is rampant (desolated areas, third world countries, ghettos, etc) you know that the people would rather not have it that way, just for the sake that it keeps the people around that place in bondage. They're bound by fear of what will happen to them, so they do other things like adopt that type of behavior to survive, or move out, or whatever it is, but the fact of the matter remains, that the people, given the chance to escape the bondage of living in a place where murder is common place would leave.
Also, coveting your neighbors wife, man, that's more universal truth, because nobody truthfully wants to live a life where their neighbor is lusting after their wife, or worse, sleeping with them. It causes problems, and life is much much easier to deal with when you don't have to worry about your wife going off and cheating on you. Even people who say that they have "open relationships" are hurting. Especially those people, the bondage that they live in and the things that they do or have had done to them are terrible, the fact that you would take something as sacred as marriage and completely throw out the unity of it all, of you being unified with your wife or your wife being unified with you shows something that is not right. I don't really agree with the whole polygamy idea either, but the fact of that remains that the persons are still married, and they aren't ripping families apart from that, because they become one unit.
So I think that there are relative truths, but I believe that the absolute truths, the universal truths, which faiths are based off of (which are not limited to what I wrote, in any means), are not relative.
That's just my $0.02 though
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