Comments on: God’s in Ur Brainz, Rearranging Ur Neurons http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/217 SPREADING THE GOOD WORD Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:27:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Dave http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/217#comment-2531 Dave Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:24:54 +0000 http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/?p=217#comment-2531 You know, Jake, I feel like your post is trying to swindle me. How swindled am I if I believe that Big G is a swindler swindling some woman into swindling random internet folks into swindling the Big Swindler in the Sky to swindle said woman's sister into believing in the Holy Swindle? I just can't swindle that. But here's the real swindle: faith. Faith is believing in something for which you have no proof, and for which no proof can ever be found. Faith, then, is something portrayed as good. Is it? Have we been swindled into thinking that that isn't (or shouldn't be) an open question? You know, Jake, I feel like your post is trying to swindle me. How swindled am I if I believe that Big G is a swindler swindling some woman into swindling random internet folks into swindling the Big Swindler in the Sky to swindle said woman’s sister into believing in the Holy Swindle? I just can’t swindle that.

But here’s the real swindle: faith. Faith is believing in something for which you have no proof, and for which no proof can ever be found. Faith, then, is something portrayed as good. Is it? Have we been swindled into thinking that that isn’t (or shouldn’t be) an open question?

]]> By: ania http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/217#comment-2528 ania Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:12:04 +0000 http://www.fireblind.com/wordpress/?p=217#comment-2528 i didn't know we were still using 'swindled'. i didn’t know we were still using ’swindled’.

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