Fred wrote, after me :

>> After all, faith asks us to BELIEVE, not to KNOW.
>
> This paragraph was very reasonable up until the last sentence.
>
> Faith does not ask you to believe. A priest of some denomination of
> some church asks you to believe. Then, if you question the
> validity of
> those teachings, you are asked to use faith as the basis of
> your belief.

I stand by my position. I pretend to have faith in a few things. I do not
pretend to KNOW things, I pretend to BELIEVE in things.

> The following quote is for the benefit of all believers:
>
> "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
> endowed us
> with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo
> their use."
> -  Galileo Galilei

I could not agree more !

> FW

Christian

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