Posted by mi nación malvada on October 11, 2004, at 22:58:56
I just clicked on a link that claimed to be to the definition of religious faith and it instead lead to a definition of religion. Faith has nothing to do with "service" or "worship" ... those are other aspects of religion. Faith is simply belief. Some beliefs hold no requirement of either service or faith. The definitions provided here, and the rules imposed to support those false definitions, offend faiths that require neither service nor worship. Creating idiosyncratic definitions is a typical ploy of cultural and religous exploitation, used by believers to foist their faith to a loftier status than others. I get the sense somebody created this page in an attempt to quiet the ghostly voices of their Taoist ancestors.
poster:mi nación malvada
thread:401930
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/faith/20040914/msgs/401930.html