Here are two diverging ideas of what faith is. No Evidence One is the notion that faith is belief in something without any evidence to support it. This is the stance taken by most atheist materialists: that faith is merely childish acceptance of something as being true without demanding that it actually be true, or that […]
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Certitude
Is it possible that the more certain you are about a proposition, the less likely it is to be true? The idea is not merely counterintuitive. It’s silly. And yet, atheist evangelists sometimes make this argument, citing strength of faith as evidence that Christianity must be false. Religion and Certainty Though doubts may sometimes be inevitable, […]
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The Hebrews, Before Christ We think of the principal monotheistic religions as being Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. They appeared in that order. Islam is quite recent, compared to the others. It was founded in the 6th century A.D. It is often criticized as being merely derivative (and poorly derivative) of Judaism and Christianity. In any […]
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