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Originally posted by Moneyguy1
No one seems to comprehend what I have posted before:
God created faith; man created religion.
Define God as you will; Gaia, Yaweh, something else......But the very nub of the argument is that religions, made by man, are based on man's "understanding", which is imperfect and can only reflect that imperfection. Faith, on the other hand is internal and personal and can be founded on anything that gives the person a "core". It is a difficult concept, I know. But, until someone can separate the concept of religion from the concept of faith, they will not be able to resolve their difficulty with the history of "religion" and its flaws.
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No offense meant, but that sounds like convenient rationalization to me (not to mention parsing over words, semantics and just frankly a lot of theological double-speak babble-talk).
Man created "God", religion, AND the "faith" necessary to believe in either of them. And man did it due to motivations that are HARDLY unselfish or non-secular.