Although Valuable in Themselves, Belief and Faith Do Not Equal Knowledge

[tsukikage]

First off, I want to warn any Christians that this is a video by an anti-Christian. I hate the way people talk about how they "know" God exists*. You know if you "know" in your heart that the Christian God exists, and the guy next door "knows" in his heart that the Islamic God exists, well, frankly, at least one of you obviously "knows" nothing. Please, please, please learn to use the phrase "firmly believe" or something similar:

And just because I've been going through the old Digital Fortress post, I must add:
Jesus Christ, let's try the Kanji!

Comments

[killercherrypie.livejournal.com]

I also hate it when people act as though God is a universal truth. I can respect that people believe in a god or gods, but I can't respect that they would equate that belief with knowledge or truth. It's just insulting to the whole of humanity and intelligence to pass off belief as fact and forgetting that there is no empirical evidence to support the existence or non-existence of God. But yeah, my mother pretty much embodies the whole "I believe in God, therefore He is real" thing. I'm not anti-Christian, but talking to her pushes me in that direction XD

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Well, I do think you can't really believe in god without believing that his existence is the true, but that's still different from, I dunno, not accepting the fact that there's no empirical evidence for his existence. If that makes any sense.

[akaneko.livejournal.com]

All those animal sacrifices are going to be a problem if Buddhism and/or Jainism are true.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Very good point.