In religion, where would you say the line is drawn between faith and ignorance?
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When it starts to defy all rational logic and you have faith in it just because someone told you so or it was written somewhere.
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Faithfreedom\n\ngoogle it
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Faith is the purposeful refusal to provide a factual, evidenced answer to a question.  Science is the pursuit of factual, evidenced answers to questions.  I would say that they are ideas in opposition.
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The correct answer, of course, is that ignorant lies are necessary to the defense of the religion. \n\nWhy would you expect honesty of someone whose goal is to defend a religious belief system? Honesty is simply not a very high priority there.
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Well in his eyes; yes. Unless he did something out of ignorance and deserved it. My Pastor said a story about a man who wasn't wise. This man just went up to people and told them to their face "you're a sinner." This man thought he was doing God's work by letting the people know what they are, but in reality he wasn't. One day he said this to a man and that man hit the "holy man" in the face and he thought to himself "I am being persecuted for doing Gods work" then he told my pastor and my pastor told him, "it wasn't persecution, it was ignorance that got you hit in the face because we're supposed to show mercy to others." Sometimes it's not persecution, but ignorance, just like sometimes it's not the devil that looks for us, but us to him and that is what I call ignorance. Either way, in his head he might think that he is being persecuted, but if he gets hit for being ignorant... his ignorance was the cause of it.
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Faith is personal and, it does not rely upon any dogmata and scriptures.  When you bleed, you know that you are bleeding.  Same with faith, it is in the knowing of it is there.  People do backup their faith with scriptures but, the latter reinforce the former and not the vice versa.
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I find faith to not have much middle ground as far as thinking goes -- you usually have people who just use faith as an excuse not to have to think about things at all (they just want the answers provided to them, so they can feel secure), and then you have those really struggle with faith and pursue it and think critically of everything throughout the entire ongoing process of looking for meaning.\n\nCriticial thinking and faith is not exclusionary, but you'll see many of the first type of people (the non-thinkers) simply because it's so easy to do.
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Lack of knowledge /faith in God .
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I believe it is human nature to assume that someone who defies what you believe in, doesn't know what they're talking about. That doesn't make this assumption true however. I am a Christian and I know there are many people out there that are well versed in Christianity, even if they do not share the belief. Some of them probably even know more about it than I do. I know about other religions as well. I think it is important to know about and the different faiths and non-faiths of the world.
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To whom much is given, much is required.\n\nHe that knew much about christ and didnt believe, will be beaten with many stipes.\n\nHe that knew not or didnt know much will be beaten with few stripes.\n\nFor those that dont believe in christ, they will be judged according to how much they knew or didnt know.
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Faith is not something that can be easily explained, it is just something you know. The Bible says that faith is the belief in things not seen. I believe in air, I can't see it but sometimes I feel it. It is faith that makes me believe the air is still there even when the wind isn't blowing. God is like that. You can't see Him, but if you pay close attention you can feel Him sometimes.  It is faith that lets you believe that He is there even when you don't feel Him.
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Ignorance leads to bigotry.  For example, the belief that Muslims and Christians worship different Gods has caused a lot of trouble.  When you find out that people have similar believes, there is no reason to fight over believes.
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ignorance and closed-mindedness but also having been brainwashed by religious leaders. \nYour comment about science is right, in the future use the example of gailileo. How the catholic church sent him to jail for stating the earth revolved around the sun and that after 500 years they catholic church admitted to be wrong.\n\nEdit:\nTO rayna: get a clue dollface the constitution does not say we must practice religion as you are trying to imply\n\nEdit2:\nJust watch you'll have people use circular reasoning to support the idea of a god
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Honestly, you can't have those kinds debates with Christians. When it comes down to a debate on Faith Vs Reason people who value logic and reason and people who value faith (be they Christians or Muslims or what have you) have *very little* common ground to fight over. \n\nIt's two different world views. You can't make them understand. They won't listen.\n\nYou can point out all the errors and inconsistencies in the bible until you are blue in the faith (heee). You won't touch their belief, because their belief has absolutely nothing to do with reason or truth.
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Everything. Religions train you to accept things without proof, and then politicians make you do the same thing. But what may be acceptable in religions is absolutely wrong in politics.
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My interpretation is that religion is not meant to be understood - you believe things on faith.
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I think it would be more appropriate to call that person an agnostic, one who is not certain that God exists but is open to the moral code of the faith.  Tradition, theology, ideas and behavior are different things.  One may find value in one but not another.