Saturday, October 08, 2005

A Thought on Faith

From my previous post, I disparaged the idea that "faith creates reality." Some people may wonder how a Christian like myself can have a negative opinion toward faith.

Well, it is really simple. Faith is not of any value in itself. The value of faith lies in the object of the faith. Christian faith is valuable because the Christian God is real (I'm sure a lot of people are going to disagree with me on that one).

Faith, however, does not create reality. The Christian God's existence is not affected by the level of our faith.

Likewise, Bush's aide's statement that there is a "faith-based community" and a "reality-based community" (Bush's administration is in the former) is not a statement that should ease Christians (se, the President is a man of faith). What it reather implies to me is that Bush feels that he can do anything if he is just determined enough. That is, will conquers all.

Very dangerous.

That is all.

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