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Originally Posted by Azure
Seems to me..you openly disagree with everything religion has to offer. Religion this..religion that.
Faith is a big part of religion...and probably something that allows people to have religious morals. Included in those morals is the belief that homosexuality is wrong. Something wrong with that?
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Every sect, as far as reason will help them, make use of it gladly; and where it fails them, they cry out, "It is a matter of faith, and above reason."
- John Locke,
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)
It's not that I have faith that there isn't a God, I simply lack faith in a God.
What if your wife decided that it would be best for your relationship if she disappeared for years and expected you to trust in her and have faith in her?
Imagine if an airplane engineer, for his own self-gratification, designed an airplane knowing that a hefty percentage of its passengers would die. Imagine also that this engineer dictated that the only way for a passenger to survive a flight on this plane would be to deliberately contact him and flatter him in some way. Worse, there are different engineers, each with different sets of rules, and the passengers have to figure out which engineer they are supposed to be in touch with.
It gets worse. Because this engineer wants his passengers to have Faith in him, there's no reason for him to make his presence known. That way, the passengers can't really be sure that any engineer exists at all. If a human behaved like this, most people (including Christians) would want his head on a plate. But since this is God's doing, this situation is somehow supposed to make sense.