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Posted by: RickyDawkins 2 years, 7 months agoPlease, Senator Brownback, define "faith". You keep throwing that word around as if it actually has some substantial meaning, but it seems to me that all you're doing is inserting an emotionally-loaded buzzword that has its import dunned into your voters from birth to death, while avoiding saying anything of significance about it.
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Atheism can be either the rejection of theism, or the position that deities do not exist. In the broadest sense, it is the absence of ...
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RickyDawkins
June 1, 2007, 10:45 a.m."There is also some confusion about what faith can accomplish. I reject faith, yet somehow I have value and meaning in my life, I feel empathy for those who suffer, and I love. I do not need your dogma to understand those matters. I do so by observing my own life, the lives of others, the consequences of actions on peopleâ;;by considering just the material world, not assuming an irrelevant supernatural one.
Brownback is intentionally, I suspect, muddling his words. He is replacing "compassion" with the nonsense word, "faith". Compassion is a human value possessed by scientists and by citizens, atheists and the devout; we do not need faith, that bamboozling misleading sacred delusion, to live as good human beings."
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RickyDawkins
June 1, 2007, 10:48 a.m."Faith says that the way to get answers is by revelation, accepting authority, and dogma. Science says that the way to get answers is by examining the evidence critically, testing hypotheses with experiment in the natural world, and by constantly reevaluating and revising our ideas to make them more accurate. It isn't just that the two arrive at different, conflicting answersâ;;for instance, that the earth is 6000 years old vs. 4.5 billion years oldâ;;but that their methods conflict. Scientists will not accept a random idea because someone contemplated and decided a deep "Truth" appealed to him: a kernel of observation and evidence is required.
It is disingenuous for Brownback to claim that science and religion do not contradict each other, given that religion contradicts itself. Which "same god" created the material order?
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Amazing1
June 1, 2007, 11 a.m.Any of those three who raised their hands to indicate they did not subscribe to the theory of evolution, should be stricken from the race by those of us who think. Brownbeck is just trying to pander to those whom he thinks would vote for him. He's been in Washington long enough to know that there is a difference between his namby pampy words of faith and the dirty back door dealings of congress. He's a hypocrite.
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Ciera-Marie
June 1, 2007, 11:36 a.m.I heard Senator Brownback speak at a relatives graduation ceremony from Christendom (VERY Ultra Conservative Catholic College.) He converted to Catholicism. As a Christian what he now believes scares me.
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RickyDawkins
June 1, 2007, 4:49 p.m.Nah, it's not scary, it's America. The neocons say "love it or leave it". I say "educate the Religious masses so they don't spoil the whole planet".
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ETproductions
June 2, 2007, 1:34 a.m.I know there are people who have experienced a heartfelt epiphany and whose faith is quite genuine. Sadly, I also see that the vast majority use faith as a business decision or as a political expedient. The moment I detect that in someone, they are off my list. And Brownback is off my list.
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