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Old 01-28-2003, 02:49 PM   #150
Yorick
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Join Date: January 7, 2001
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Quote:
Originally posted by esquire:
Ah! But you have answered your own question. Religion is based on the assumption that there is a point to existence, a ‘meaning of life’ – theology also makes this assumption.

Science (with all it’s subcategories) DOES NOT make this assumption.
This is the difference.
Not all religions provide a meaning for life Esquire. Not all religions have the assumption there is a meaning. In any case, there is a difference between "Religion" and "Faith". I was talking about "Faith". Most specifically MY faith.

Faith can lead to the discovery of a meaning for ones own life, and the meaning for life in general, but one does not have to possess a desire to know the meaning of life to have faith, nor have faith to desire an answer to the meaning of life.
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