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Faith: Pretending to know things you don't know.


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When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.

When one has a crisis of faith it means one is struck by the realisation than one has been pretending know things that one doesn't know.



Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.

Faith is an unclassified cognitive illness disguised as a moral virtue.



In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.

In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.



Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.

Christians assert that because there is fundamental weirdness at the quantum level of the very very small one must pretend to know things one does not know, aka have faith.



Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.

Christians claim that life has no meaning if you stop pretending to know things you don't know, though they phrase it more tersely as life has no meaning without faith.



Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.

Just as I am not upset with somebody who has caught a cold, so too I am not upset with somebody who's caught the faith virus.



Help cure the world of the faith virus.

Help cure the world of the faith virus.



Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.

Faith is not a reliable path to the truth.



Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.

Faith is the problem. Faith is unreliable way to think about problems that will not lead to the truth.



Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.

Doubt is your intellectual conscience pleading with you to be honest with yourself.





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I'm passionate, I'm driven at my job and I also am compassionate with people. We all think we can save somebody that we love.



It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.



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Mandy because that was the most meaningful relationship.



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