If religion is based on 'belief' not 'fact', why do some christians talk like its a fact?
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'truth' (or fact) is simply the perception of the individual.  If someone really believes in something then it is 'fact' for them even if it is fundamentally illogical for others.\n\nI do have a problem when some religious people abuse people for not believing although I think they are the minority.  \n\nLive and let live, if someone wants to believe in the God, the Loch Ness Monster or Big Foot that's cool with me as long as they don't abuse me for not.\n\nPeace out.
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This is very difficult to answer. Knowledge effects you on many levels. Whether something is true or factual is not relevant to a believer of faith. If you have been told something all your life and even if new evidence presents itself - you will tend to support the former idea. You have to understand the Christian mind. Most Christians see the world as black and white: no shades of grey. Either you are or are not a Christian. There is no other way to look at it. If you are not a Christian you are lost. Part of every Christian’s salvation and “Ticket to Heaven” is inextricably linked to several essential factors and one of which is to “Spread the Good News.” This is known as Evangelism. Yes. You have to endure the Christian’s witty incite filled pejorative analysis with cut downs and invidious diminutive behavior. It is their duty to explain to you what a looser you are for not being a Christian and what winners they are for being on the winning side. Although it seems like insecurity at first glance I feel it somehow reenforces some need to show they are superior. Wait, that's the same thing. . .right? Typical Christian comments are, “Are you still practicing that Witchcraft. . .come BACK to Christ.” “Hinduism is just a bunch of Pagans. . .FIND the Lord.” “You KNOW you are lost without Christ.” “The Bible SAYS. . .” They assume you should agree with them because they assume what they are saying is the ONLY way to look at it.
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Being religious does not blind people to truth. It constrains and biases their thinking just like culture, social context, upbringing, education, etc. do. I think all of us, whether religious or not, are biased in the way we think and to that extent distort truth.\n\nWhat is unique about religion is that a set of things are held to be true on the basis of faith rather than scientific reasoning.
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Not essentially. It's important to BELIEVE in what you believe, but being Religious is a whole different thing.\n\nA belief is just a statement which an individual holds to be true. A faith is a strong belief in that statement. A religion is a man-based form of worship of the deity/thing mentioned IN that statement, and due to corruption.\n\nIt's important to believe, not be religious. That's missing the whole point.
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Faith does not rely on reality. It is a willingness, even desire, to believe in that which cannot be proven to exist. You can literally create any reality you want to, and if you have enough faith in it, that reality will appear solid and indisputable, to you, regardless of how unrealistic it is, or how little sense it makes. A lot of religious people don't really grasp this concept.
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Athesits behave cause of fools like you.. they think people who follow some religion will talk like you idiot.
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Some people really dont know what religion is. Sometimes you just have to break it down, cause if someone told you about something and you didnt understand, and then they said something to describe then you would say ok yes that place. In some part of the world, people dont believe in that and talk about it. And i am not one to judge to say whether i believe the person is a christian.
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Some people don't have a dedication to religion, and belief its made of false yet myths that are nonsense. For some people they were forced into religion younger so they deny it, or simply just don't want to accept the truth. And they find mockery of christianity entertaining, and believing the bible of made of nonsense which is false its based on the truth. Good luck though
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Just because he is purported to have said it, and christians believe it, doesn't make it true.
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It is not a matter of correct or even belief but finance and power.  I have met some of the top people in certain religions myself.  I can tell you that most dont believe the general beliefs of their own religion.  They feel those beliefs are for the general congregation who are not mature enough to handle the "real truth".  I could and have told people in those religions what certain people said but they simply say I am making it up.  \n\nThe bottom line is it has to do with economy.  There is no economy in Norse or Egyptian beliefs.  Even Constatine "converted" and changed most of the Romans to follow the newly formed Christian faith that was gaining popularity.  He feared loosing people is loosing power and position.  So he created his own christian type faith and state religion.  \n\nIf you study certain religions today, you will find that a few were started by known con artist who were convicted and admitted their cons.  However they continued and a modern religion was made.  Now they are regarded as a legitimate religion and their founder's history is revised.
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They are ignorant and would rather believe a religon than delve deeper into the truth. That or they just do not have the mental capabilities to believe anything else than what they were raised on.
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Usually the religion has nothing to do with it. It's usually the ignorant people that take what the religion says and misinterpret the meaning. They try to force their beliefs onto other people and get pretty hostile about it. It's just ignorance!
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Many do not believe that,because they don't believe in God. Many of them also say they know the Bible better than the believers,and thus they will also be held accountable for all the knowledge they have gotten from God's Word and still remained unbelievers.
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Because, like the Bush administration, they will often deflect the actual substance of the question being asked upon the asker, to make the asker defenseive.  They will often attribute any behavior done for the sake of their belief as "moral."\n\nIn my experience, most Christians are either unaware of the real history of their belief system (believing that a book that says it is the truth is proof that it is) or in denial about the history their religion has of absorbing other religions and killing those who do not meet their "standards".  \n\nEvery society and culture on the planet has had morals for its own society.    Just because Christianity has spread so widely and wildly, many Christians seem to believe that bolsters the "fact" that their truth is more truthy than other religious beliefes -- let alone any beliefs of anyone who is non-religous.
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yes\nFaith does not require fact.\nI think you just figured it out ....Fiath is.....\n KNOWING with out SEEING......\n Believing without tangible evidence......\nChoose what you believe.\n\nThose Christians who require evidence of Jesus resurrection want to believe in Him by Fact....not Faith.\n\nHow many through history have believed in Jesus without Scripture or evidence or having seen it....only through personal testimony.....only Faith.
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An Atheist is a believer.  However, they do not believe in the correct religion.
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When a human being wholehartedly believes in what he/she thinks is the truth, automatically tends to believe that the truth he/she found is THE TRUTH, and that everything else is false. Why? Because humans don´t like to make high stakes on something that may not be real. So, if they did make high stakes, the desperately NEED their beliefs to be TRUE, what immediately means that the others´ are not. \nSo they argue, they fight and they even would kill (take a look at history) in the name of their God.\n\nI´m an atheist, but I don´t want to convert everyone. To each his/her own! Even religious people accept that "the paths to God are diverse".\n\nTolerance should be the natural outcome of a little humbleness... which humans tend to lack.