covenantnews.com — I have never been one who is comfortable talking about my faith in the political arena. In fact, the pandering that typically occurs in the election season I find to be distasteful. But for those who have asked, I freely confess that Jesus Christ is my personal Savior, and that I seek His guidance in all that I do.
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ncairnsJul 22, 2007
Anyone who professes 'faith' in anything is a fundamentally weak individual. How is it acceptable, even necessary, for Americans seeking office to admit that they fully believe in some overriding authority for which there is no evidence whatsoever? Piety - faith - belief, all of these things are seen as admirable, respectable qualities when they should be reviled.
johndoenumber2Jul 22, 2007
Religious teaching is one of the foundations of humanity's moral character on the planet Earth no matter what Atheist might want to think. A statement that clarifies Ron Paul's position on the subject when he has been ask to make that clarification is simply serving up to the electorate what they ask for. I also think the word faith is over used. I am a spiritual person and I believe in God but it is not just faith. I believe because I have witnessed the divinely inspired actions and words of people who profess a love for God and they transcend the normal human discourse and evolve people consciously and visibly above the character they once had to a level of being that is not possible without having been inspired from a higher outside source.
ncairnsJul 23, 2007
"Religious teaching is one of the foundations of humanity's moral character on the planet Earth no matter what Atheist might want to think."No. It is not. If you can't find the Darwinian genesis of morality, good luck in high school biology. You have no evidence for the existence of a God. Instead, you confuse your chemically fathered delusions of divinity, which evidently you must lack the intelligence or desire to logically explain, for something transcendent and therefore inherently inexplicable. Again, the fact that you think that how you *feel* about human actions and motions adequately repletes some requisite empirical rationale for your fortutious, Pavlovian beliefs belies a serious lack of scientific schooling."Atheists are just as 'weak' if you consider they believe in a certain knowledge about the state of the universe." Atheists do not believe there is not God - they simply do not believe in a God. This is a very different thing from actively dismissing a God's existence. The fact that I cannot disprove the existence of God must not, however, be construed as evidence that there is a God, or you concurrently concede the equally probable existence of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Celestial Teapot, and a greater tithe of extinct deities society has dismissed as mere mythology, preferring instead to worship the ethereal progenitor of a long-dead bearded and berobed carpenter.Oh bless the Enlightenment.