Politically charged Quote of the Day (and ... The Meaning of Life)

[Alex]

But again, that is my point. You aren't accepting it on faith, your just accepting it on evidence that I can't accept. Democritus's belief in atoms 2,600 years ago was an act of faith. Your belief that what you saw is a ghost is not so much, it is a response to evidence. Evidence I discount as insufficient, but evidence nonetheless. I see this as fundamentally different than "I have faith that god exists because that is the only way the world makes sense to me."

But again, you may not be willing to completely rule out any article of faith but I have to assume you don't consider them all equally worthy of serious consideration. On what basis does that happen? Personal perception and experience is an amazingly frail vessel. Frankly I don't see why anybody would rely on it.

But again, that is just the huge gulf between the way I look at the world around me and the way you (and Kevy and billions of others do). I think you're all wacky and you all think I'm rigid and hollow. Viva le difference and joie au cours de la discussion (if babelfish is to be believed).