Michael Higgins - Globe & Mail
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So, in my view, it is fair game to submit Mr. Biden's and Ms. Palin's respective faiths to appropriate investigation in pursuit of a deeper understanding of the convictions that shape them. Their religious beliefs may indeed prove to be a problem, but the fact that they have religious beliefs at all is not. It is our problem in thinking so.
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Wednesday, September 03, 2008
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If politicians have to defend their faith in god, what ever that is deem to be, why aren't the marxist and socialist commies held accountable for their beliefs? Why are they allowed to espouse (like Obama) their propaganda free from public scrutiny but people who have faith must have every single rock in their life over turned.
More leftard hypocrisy, do as I say not as I do green goo of puss.
The left is built on hypocrisy.
Everybody bases their life on something, even if it's passionate atheism. It's only Christianity that seems to arouse such suspicion.
Most annoying of all, of course, are the faux sophisticates who really haven't evolved much beyond their high school rebellion, although i don't put all atheists in that category, just the obnoxious ones.
BTW, after years of thought and contemplation I have become a devout agnostic. I really, really just don't know and I will defend that position fiercely! :)
Hi whitney,
Do you think people of faith "really, really, know"?
It seems to me that faith is necessary (and a good thing for various reasons) because it too is built on "agnosticism" (so i think there are really only two not three choices when it comes to belief in God (disbelief and faith in what cannot be fully known), though these choices come in many shades and once we fully appreciate what all humans share in common, we can reduce what is at stake in the contest between believer and non-believer to something vanishingly small).
The question, as I see it, is how do we promote the necessity of our shared human faith in (renewing) our shared systems of representing and organizing ourselves, whether we are theistic believers or not.
The left think their positions are not open to scrutiny in quite the same way as the religious person's because the left figures their positions are the product of reason and logic while they don't appreciate how religion is full of reason about the human condition and the necessity of shared faith in shared meanings and events.
Leaving aside the holes in the left's reason, the problem with this is that our reason is a way of understanding what has already happened. It does not provide us with the faith necessary to opening ourselves to truly new possibilities in new events, or to truly appreciating how past events came into being. Leftist history is essentially conspiracy theory. The left used to have some Utopian faith, e.g. in the communist revolution. That faith quickly became corrupted by a Leninist will-to-power because it was not based on a true respect for the human condition. The revolution was not really something new but only a worse form of tyranny, a degradation that was not very open to emerging possibilities, except in a few technological areas. In any case, much of the left today has faith in nothing but endless victimology.
respectfully,
So Biden and Palin's religion are open to probing, but not Obama's?
"Do you think people of faith "really, really, know"?"
No, as a matter of fact, I don't. It was meant as a facetious comment about my own difficulties with this issue.
Hi this is james, I can edit for this to work better- please let me know.
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james
Persian Cats and Kittens - Purrinlot Cattery
Not only is the Left built on the shaky foundation of hypocrisy, but they also believe hypocrisy is the worst sin you can commit.
Talk about yer 'internal contradictions". Such a formula is bound to implode.
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