sf > wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 01:31:59 +0000 (UTC), Nad R
> > wrote:
>
>> "J. Clarke" > wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> dude says...
>>>>
>>>> ravenlynne > wrote:
>>>
>>> Faith is not a conscious decision, it's something that one has or does
>>> not have. Many religious adherents do not have faith and there are
>>> people who have faith but don't accept any religion. If you don't have
>>> it then you probably will never understand it, and if you do have it
>>> you'll likely find the antics of the faithless believers amusing.
>>>
>>> How one gets it I have no idea--I suspect that it's a matter of early
>>> indoctrination but that's entirely an uninformed opinion.
>>
>> Oh God! (Name used in Vain here).
>> If one believes in a God, are you saying it is embedded in ones genetic
>> makeup?
>
> What didn't you understand about the word "indoctrination"?
Ok, I will give you that point on indoctrination, you got me on that one.
I admit, I lean toward the opposite biased view that many believe in God,
like personality types are born with the genetic traits to believe in a
God.
I lean towards the statement, " Great leaders are first born, then made". I
believe that the tendencies for belief in a God is first born with those
traits. Then their environments direct them towards specific religious
beliefs. Those that are born without those tendencies will reject those
indoctrinated teachings and base there life on reason. They will be the
outcast (few and far between).
A key word here is faith that may have effected my reading. I define Faith:
believing in something in which all the facts are not there. Anyone who
has a religion, a belief in a God, has to have "faith" that a God exist.
One can have faith with out a God, like I have faith the economy will
improve.
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Enjoy Life... Nad R (Garden in zone 5a Michigan)