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Even if god exists religion can't possibly be the way to god (lemmy.world)
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So I thought about this in the shower amd it makes sense to me, like praying and stuff never worked for most people I know, so a direkt link to god gotta be unlikely. That made me conclude that religion is probably fake, no matter if there's a god or not. Also people speaking to the same god being given a different set of rules sounds stupid, so at least most religions must be fake.

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[–] outsideno1877@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like you are replacing the words faith with confidence or certainty. You can be confident in yourself but you can’t have faith in yourself because faith necessitates not having knowledge otherwise it would be knowledge.

I can’t really say much more about your idea of faith since most of what you said is the standard vague wishy washy stuff that doesn’t tell me anything exact

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 months ago

As an agnostic, faith isn't confidence. It provides the wanderlust to go on along with a small ego boost for following morals.