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    Default Re: Want to know stuff about Religion? ask an atheist or an agnostic it seem.

    After years of learning about life, religion and Christianity - And knowing more about it than most people I've met - I have abandoned my agnosticism. It started by recognizing that most of our understanding of secular or religious history itself is based on faith, especially the more ancient aspects. In doing this, I began to look at the origins of the modern Church and I cultivated a tremendous respect for it. I've had the opportunity to see faith in action and I don't want it to die out with my parents and my local community. I view faith in a different way than I did before. Faith drives most of what makes us successful as humans. Science is a tool of that faith and cannot be discounted. I like the Catholic Church because of its tradition and its intellectual bulwark against modern ethical fallacy, in addition to its insistence that science can help us understand God's will.

    Religion is a choice, strengthened by the hammer of knowledge. What tempers one sword will break another, so if the sword is valuable to you, make sure you take the care not to break it. Don't adhere merely to the superficial or feel good aspects of Religion. Some of those aspects might be components, but they fuel your base passions rather than a larger superlative understanding of truth. If you use it purely as a crutch, you are in trouble.

    Abandoning "knowledge" to non-believers dismisses the truth that knowledge brings. I'm obsessively learning, testing myself - and I like the new me much better than the old me.
    Last edited by ICantSpellDawg; 10-03-2010 at 15:52.
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