Thinking erodes religious belief. (Main Forum)

by Francis , Kingsgrove, NSW, Saturday, April 28, 2012, 15:13 (387 days ago) @ Helen

"May I suggest it is because those who have never had a faith presume that those who do have always believed in exactly the same way throughout their lives - from First Communion to retirement without questioning their beliefs."

Helen, I have spent a lot of time in my life wondering. Is that the same as thinking? It seems I had a faith before I was indoctrinated; or was I ontologically changed because of baptism?

Was I conceived religious? I don't know enough about genes that seem to predispose one one way or another to answer and I guess there is some human influence between conception and birth

Somehow I had a faith that linked me with God and with a wholeness that embraced all that is. Is it because of having a faith that made me a thinking person. Because of the faith I had I wondered about everything to check out relationship. When it came to being indoctrinated (of course, I did not know that indoctrination was what was happening), I wondered about each of the 'facts' that were presented as to how each fitted into what I already believed and accepted what I judged did fit. Maybe it was a bit of compromise. What has resulted is not precisely what I had been taught but a sort of mixture predominatedly leaning towards the indoctrination because therein lay the greater pressure though my conscience was not compromised. It is the faith I had that prevailed and kept me thinking through the years and left me with a faith that had to fit with the original faith.

Yes, Helen, I wonder, and it seems so to me, that one needs a faith or acceptance of a faith that comes with the conception-birth process, to get one wondering and thinking throughout life. What articles of faith that come from a foreign source, and that means from outside one's own being, do not become as real faith (truth) in any one being. The experiences of life in each one's life give opportunities for one to add to the original faith. I suppose the original faith is the original blessing that not everyone notices and thinks about.

Francis

My purpose is to remember the love that created me in God one with my brothers and sisters and with all life. My function is to extend that love and unity each moment to all.

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Thinking erodes religious belief. - Helen, 2012-04-27, 18:27
- Thinking erodes religious belief. - curlie que, 2012-04-27, 19:49
- Thinking erodes religious belief. - Roy, 2012-04-28, 11:34
  - Thinking erodes religious belief. - Helen, 2012-04-28, 11:56
    - Thinking erodes religious belief. - judith, 2012-04-28, 12:00
    - Thinking erodes religious belief. - gemstones, 2012-04-28, 12:17
      - Thinking erodes religious belief. - Roy, 2012-04-28, 12:26
      - Thinking erodes religious belief. - Roy, 2012-04-28, 12:41
- Thinking erodes religious belief. - Francis, 2012-04-28, 15:13
  - When it all gets too hard it's time for an Hootenanny - Roy, 2012-04-28, 16:37
    - Here's Roy's video of the Hootenanny. On ya Roy. - Oh Yet We Trust, 2012-04-28, 17:38
      - Here's Roy's video of the Hootenanny. On ya Roy. - Macbee, 2012-04-28, 22:12
  - Thinking erodes religious belief. - judith, 2012-04-28, 17:18
- Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism... - Brian Coyne, 2012-04-28, 17:29
  - Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism... - Helen, 2012-04-28, 19:00
  - Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism... - desi, 2012-04-28, 20:30
    - Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism... - Brian Coyne, 2012-04-28, 20:53
      - Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism, let alone having opinions! - desi, 2012-04-28, 21:39
        Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism, let alone having opinions! - Brian Coyne, 2012-04-28, 23:07
        Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism, let alone having opinions! - desi, 2012-04-28, 23:20
        Thinking certainly erodes religious fundamentalism, let alone having opinions! - Roy, 2012-04-29, 10:08
    - Bring out Ockham's Razor - Ynot, 2012-04-29, 08:59
      - Civilization... - Brian Coyne, 2012-04-29, 10:30
      - Bring out Ockham's Razor - desi, 2012-04-29, 10:33

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