Tsunamie
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Faith described by dictionary.com as
faith definition |Dictionary.com
"Belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact."
There are others but I thought this was the most relevant. The English dictionary is more brutal on this word.
It concerns me that cults or religious groups are so abundant in America. Dividing and secularising communities. I find that the people involved in these groups are more aggressive and violent. I am concerned that the American government’s inability to deal with such issues has spilled over to the UK political domain.
The most promising thing in history was the shedding of religion within our judicial system as well as the factual basis of our education system. In the UK, the bible is not taught in the curriculum for very good reason. There is no proof!
I am also slightly confused on the statistics provided by the major news providers in the USA. AS CNN quotes that 47% of America’s believe the earth is 10k years old. If I was to take that literal, the statistic he claims is that he has done a poll for all 250 million US citizens and received all replies or close to 200 million replies to qualify there statistic. Not only is this disturbing but such basic understanding of the world is generally flawed.
For example –
Science is the deliberation of information with rules and laws hat and quantified. However civilians have less time to read and process information. A person that reads a book with the one line the “earth is several billion years old” is no better than a person who reads the bible and quotes “Adam and eve were created”. Because this would mean Faith is placed in the provider of the information and that each statement is a fact.
Where as a quantified statement such as, “our observation of matter shows relative force gravity can affect the creation of a planet. However this process must build such momentum which indicates several billion years are required to create the earth” is a more descriptive explanation on how it is possible for our planet to be here.
Bottom line is how has it come to the point where we have taken 1 step forward and 2 steps back.
With faith based subject taught in our curriculum. In the UK we have a course called religious studies and I would like to point out that it is made clear to students in this subject that everything is relative to an opinion and that the information in the subject is based on a perspective.
faith definition |Dictionary.com
"Belief that is not based on proof: He had faith that the hypothesis would be substantiated by fact."
There are others but I thought this was the most relevant. The English dictionary is more brutal on this word.
It concerns me that cults or religious groups are so abundant in America. Dividing and secularising communities. I find that the people involved in these groups are more aggressive and violent. I am concerned that the American government’s inability to deal with such issues has spilled over to the UK political domain.
The most promising thing in history was the shedding of religion within our judicial system as well as the factual basis of our education system. In the UK, the bible is not taught in the curriculum for very good reason. There is no proof!
I am also slightly confused on the statistics provided by the major news providers in the USA. AS CNN quotes that 47% of America’s believe the earth is 10k years old. If I was to take that literal, the statistic he claims is that he has done a poll for all 250 million US citizens and received all replies or close to 200 million replies to qualify there statistic. Not only is this disturbing but such basic understanding of the world is generally flawed.
For example –
Science is the deliberation of information with rules and laws hat and quantified. However civilians have less time to read and process information. A person that reads a book with the one line the “earth is several billion years old” is no better than a person who reads the bible and quotes “Adam and eve were created”. Because this would mean Faith is placed in the provider of the information and that each statement is a fact.
Where as a quantified statement such as, “our observation of matter shows relative force gravity can affect the creation of a planet. However this process must build such momentum which indicates several billion years are required to create the earth” is a more descriptive explanation on how it is possible for our planet to be here.
Bottom line is how has it come to the point where we have taken 1 step forward and 2 steps back.
With faith based subject taught in our curriculum. In the UK we have a course called religious studies and I would like to point out that it is made clear to students in this subject that everything is relative to an opinion and that the information in the subject is based on a perspective.