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gdtarrant

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Male 28 from USA
Interested in Fantasy 

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Beyond Good and Evil - Sick of asking why and having no answer - posted last year

When was the last time you talked to someone who could explain why they believed something when it came to matters of faith and spirituality? It's a tough question and I'm not ridiculing it or us but it's one that gets easily sidestepped.

I don't want to "go after" people and prove to them that they're blindly believing in something that they don't have a true cause for... but a part of me wants desperately for them to come to that conclusion on their own.

I hate talking to people who merely accept the generally held circular orthodoxy because they care more about what you believe than why. I want an answer to the why, too, regardless of what you believe.

This whole thing is just exhausting.

Beyond Good and Evil - Sick of asking why and having no answer - posted last year

I've gotten to the point in my theological and philosophical self-study that I feel like I've kind of lapped myself. By this I mean that I am coming to a lot of the same conclusions that I had before I went through becoming involved with an Evangelical Christian church. I'm running into the same exclusivist mentality of others; the same "I'm right you're wrong" attitude that I rebel violently against. But I've also found that I'm sick of arguing about it. What's the purpose of trying to convince people that what they believe in might be true but isn't certain? Is there value in it?