I Went To Church

[Yggdrasil]

Originally Posted by Hexadecimal

Okay. I make only one request: If that changes in the future, please do not be closed to the possibility of faith as a solution.

Faith [feɪθ]: "Belief in something for which there is no proof"

BP was right on the money. A sense of kinship and community is vital to a human, and to society as well, but blind belief is not a reciprocative thing.

Think of it this way:

A relative of yours serving in Iraq is driving through a Baghdad neighborhood with a fellow soldier. Suddenly, an unkempt twenty-something darts his body from behind the cover of rubble, and brandishes an RPG. He aims at the dusty jeep, and shortly thereafter, a bright plume of gray smoke shoots out from the rocket.

Now pause.

This is obviously a sickening scenario, which will undoubtedly have horrific results. Now think for a second. If you pray, do you actually think a supernatural being will, through an invisible force, redirect the rocket's trajectory, sparing your loved one, while brutally shattering the body of his or her companion, who was also an abiding Christian. What if the passenger was a young muslim girl? Would God show favoritism for the fervent believer?

Anyways, I'm sorry to describe such a morbid scenario; I was just trying to show you a bit of flaw in how some Christians believe there faith works. Notice I said "some". I only say that as to not generalize, not to say that few Christians feel this way.

Then again, there is the whole argument from evil...