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Is faith the answer to cognitive dissonance?

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03-24-2014 9:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 197 by Faith
03-24-2014 8:28 PM

Re: Why Not?
I haven't said anything I don't believe. If you don't believe me that's your problem.
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See various items in my signature...
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
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Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
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How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
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If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
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If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
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Message 227 of 227 (723238)
03-27-2014 11:29 PM 		Reply to: Message 226 by Dogmafood
03-27-2014 10:48 PM

Re: Why Not?
How is the God that I might find any different from the God that Moses or Mathew found?
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Different press agent?
Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
​
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
​
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
​
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers
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If I am entitled to something, someone else is obliged to pay--Jerry Pournelle
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If a religion's teachings are true, then it should have nothing to fear from science...--dwise1
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"Multiculturalism" does not include the American culture. That is what it is against.
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