Blog Heap o'Urantiana Links 9 July 2014

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Links regarding faith and belief
and men, women, marriage, and family life,
also sciences, the spritual and the 'supernatural,'
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Spiritual Matters

Belief is not Faith
Humans of New York Wed 2014-Jul-9 6:21pm

"I’ve been a deep believer my whole life. 18 years as a Southern Baptist. More than 40 years as a mainline Protestant. I’m an ordained pastor. But it’s just stopped making sense to me. You see people doing terrible things in the name of religion, and you think: ‘Those people believe just as strongly as I do. They’re just as convinced as I am.’ And it just doesn’t make sense anymore. It doesn’t make sense to believe in a God that dabbles in people’s lives." [This sad case is more proof that belief is not faith. Whatever he believed, and quit believing, was an idea. Apparently not a very strong one, at that.]