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Originally Posted by idi banashapan
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Atheism should always be discussed as it is the default condition. We are all born as Atheists. Some of us choose to become Theists or Deists and some of us has these beliefs forced on them during childhood.
Also, Faith Schools should be banned from the public sector. Taxpayers should not be made to pay for this:
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Originally Posted by Chris
The Bible doesn’t try to prove God exists, any more than a Haynes manual attempts to prove the existence of your car. Both books make certain assumptions and proceed from there.
If you get stuck on trying to agree or disagree over cosmology you’re not going to get very far and you’re certainly not ever going to understand why a religion like Christianity exists and what the consequences of its existence are for believers and the world.
Religious studies, remember, are there to study the religion and its consequences. If you want to contemplate God, then you want theology (which is the term used by Christians at any rate ... you can study the concept of God in an Islamic or Hindu context also, doubtless they have their own terms for that).
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The Bible cannot, by definition, attempt to prove the existence of God. Religion mandates Faith without proof. If you could prove God exists, you would no longer need Faith.
The Haynes manual requires no faith in the existence of the car it is documenting. Rather it's aim is to document the existence of the vehicle in so much detail that to any fair minded person, the probability of the document being a work of fiction is so low as to be ignored.
It also provides to the (rare) individual that believes that the car has never existed, information & detail that can be independently verified in alternate knowledge centres. For example, you can search for the specific engine part number and discover that the part does in deed fit the car in question.