01-28-2015, 10:58 PM
Actually, this post has drifted so far as to be untenable. Simply stating beliefs is one thing, haveing to debate the reality of those beliefs is completely another. Christianity, indeed all belief if God, any God, requires faith.
Questioning faith is the same as asking someone to explain the taste of salt. If you have no faith, then it is impossible to understand it, just as explaining the taste of salt would be to someone who had never tasted it would be impossible.
Stan, just to assuage your thoughts, the slave owners who wrote the Constitution all had severe questions regarding the validity of being slave owners and stating what they did there. Being men, they could not always find it in themselves to do what was right. There is no doubt that they believed in God, but like all men, they had weaknesses. On top of that, many had been taught that slavery was one of two things....A master race overseeing a lesser or humans overseeing a lesser species. Either one, in retrospect, is abominable, but there are lots of more recent examples of people believing the same. Japan in WWII, (and to some extent even now), Germany, Russian beliefs about the Poles, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, etc. The tribal beliefs in Africa. The Afrikaners in South Africa, the immigrants vs mestizos in Mexico, the Portuguese descendents vs the blacks in Brazil, and many more.
Questioning faith is the same as asking someone to explain the taste of salt. If you have no faith, then it is impossible to understand it, just as explaining the taste of salt would be to someone who had never tasted it would be impossible.
Stan, just to assuage your thoughts, the slave owners who wrote the Constitution all had severe questions regarding the validity of being slave owners and stating what they did there. Being men, they could not always find it in themselves to do what was right. There is no doubt that they believed in God, but like all men, they had weaknesses. On top of that, many had been taught that slavery was one of two things....A master race overseeing a lesser or humans overseeing a lesser species. Either one, in retrospect, is abominable, but there are lots of more recent examples of people believing the same. Japan in WWII, (and to some extent even now), Germany, Russian beliefs about the Poles, Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, etc. The tribal beliefs in Africa. The Afrikaners in South Africa, the immigrants vs mestizos in Mexico, the Portuguese descendents vs the blacks in Brazil, and many more.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt