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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
Ok... but what about the 'truth' of the belief. Believing in human-kind is believing in a tangible and obvious truth. Believing in God and angels isn't the same kind of belief... right? Is Cheese taking a leap of faith by believing that humans can be rational beings?? The same leap of faith that one takes to believe in God in Heaven?
The importance of your faith to you is one thing, but the accuracy of its actual existence (God, Angels, the Devil, as real beings) is a separate matter.
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Cheese's faith is in the potential good in mankind. That hasn't been demonstrable in the known history of mankind. If he believes that all religions are an invention of mankind then he can't very well point to theism as the cause of the world's sorrow. What is in man himself is the cause of the sorrow we inflict upon one another.
The bible I trust in calls that sin. Cheese doesn't believe in sin(missing the mark) but, rather the potential goodness of mankind. In my mind history supports my position.