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Willful irresponsibility justified under the guise of faith.
Faith is not a virtue but a vulnerable blindspot. We all have some things we just accept as fact, but we at least should not elevate that to a virtue. Yet religion does exactly that.

MikeInBatonRouge 8 Jan 1
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Of course. Criminals controlling scams, do not want people with the strength to 'accept facts' anywhere near them.

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Yeah, too many pop-ups at nola dot com

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I have no time for the yammering of the faithfools.

They're yammering, alright. But they are also spreading Covid-19. It is not what they say, but what they do that concerns me.

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Mixing "faith" with the invisible man is a mistake. Faith is indeed not what it seems.

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Faith per se ain't the problem, now blind faith is a different story, and I ain't talking about the Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Ric Grech supergroup.

Just so I understand your meaning, how do you distinguish some faith as blind, as opposed to other faith? Is that faith "despite" contradictory evidence?

@MikeInBatonRouge i have faith that your own curiosity will eventually prompt you to research the answer somewhere rather than asking someone else to solve your own doubts.

@Mofo1953 that was not a criticism of your statement, but a request for clarification of your intended specific meaning. I can't much research your intent elsewhere. To me, all faith is blind, so I suspected you mean some particular distinction.
But whatever.

@MikeInBatonRouge you said it, to you. Not to a dictionary for example.

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In my honest opinion, the Religous would NOT know virtue/s even if it got up and bit them on their arse.

That feels like painting with a broad brush. My experience is that most religious , as misguided as they are, know and value virtues. Unfortunately, it is a vocal minority and leadership that I hold contemptible.....

@Canndue My very wide experiences, decades of them btw, have shown me that the Religious, seemingly, only to 'exhibit' such so-called virtues as and when it so suits them and their needs ,etc, etc, IF they can actually find/understand what they are at all that is.

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