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Great post, I honestly appreciate your words so long as you practice what you preach.
However, I found this portion of your post interesting and wanted to ask the following:
What, in the scientific sense, is right and wrong?
Also, from what criteria do you derive of your faith an understanding of what makes you a better person? Does your faith provide you with this criteria? What about secular thought?
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To answer your first question, I accept that we can't prove or disprove a god. If you were to say that the Christian religion is a magical fairy-tale I don't have anything that can prove otherwise.
To answer your second question, my mother has a magnet on her fridge of a quote by Roy Levin that says "What God asks you to lift, He gives you the grace to carry". If you believe that, it's an added source of strength to handle any problems that come your way. In addition I used to be addicted to pop, I needed about a litre a day. I gave it up for lent one year. I'm not even Catholic, but having that set 40 days was a small enough target that see the end and it didn't feel like an uphill battle. It temporary, whereas if I gave it up for say New Year's I'd be back on the Coke-train a week or so later. Religion helped me kick my habit (replaced it with coffee mind you, but black coffee has far less sugar).
As for the practice what you preach philosophy. Having a United Protestant father, Catholic mother, Muslim uncle, I grew up in a family very open with religion and one that wasn't defined by it. While both my parents are fairly religious, I was taught to be open to others beliefs and ideals. Part of the reason I don't get involved into religious debates is because they aren't true debates, there isn't an open back and forth of ideas.
. . . so now I'll go back to lurking
