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Re: Is faith synonymous with self-delusion?

December 26th, 2011, 1:45 am

Hi again Groktruth, I think you should know that I'm a man, so, that makes me a Mr. and not a Ms., anyways, common mistake. O.K. , to trust is to believe in things unseen or better said, not know. As I said, trust, conviction, believe and faith have a sense in common, or a meaning, that is to say th...

Re: Is faith synonymous with self-delusion?

December 24th, 2011, 10:09 pm

Hi Groktruth, I'm sure our disagreement wont lead us to disrespect each other. You're right about the word proof, proof is something that exists only in the field of mathematics, but still, I think is evident that with “to have faith is to believe in something without “proof”” I do not mean a mathem...

Re: Is faith synonymous with self-delusion?

December 24th, 2011, 5:51 am

Hi again. I think we have to be faithful to the definitions of words, I do not think is right to use a word expressing more than the definition of the word. Faith is to believe in something without proof, faith can be rational or irrational, the religious are capable of having a rational faith just ...

Re: Is faith synonymous with self-delusion?

December 21st, 2011, 1:54 am

Hello, I am Luis, this is my first time in this forum, so I find it necessary to introduce myself. I Mostly participate in Spanish debates, this is the first time I post in English, hopefully I won't make a lot of grammatical errors. In relation to the debate, that is, “ is faith synonymous with sel...

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