Re: Faith
Posted by
Russ Abbott on
Sep 22, 2012; 10:37pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Faith-tp7580633p7580665.html
Sarbajit,
I looked at your pointers to your religion's beliefs and rules.
The "Articles of Faith" seem fairly non-controversial. I wouldn't think of them as requiring faith in the sense that most religions use that term--belief in something that without faith would be difficult to believe. I doubt that you would find many people on this list -- or many most secular westerners in general -- who would disagree with them, even though they are not members of your religion. When I looked at the home page, though, I was surprised to see that the first heading was "One God." Given the articles of faith, I didn't expect to find "God" playing such a major role.
I had a difficult time with the "Prime Principles" and was not able to attach any coherent semantics to most of what was written.
-- Russ
-- Russ Abbott
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On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Prof David West
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On Thu, Sep 20, 2012, at 10:24 AM, glen wrote:
>
> Here's an honest and personal question to make the ethics concrete:
> Should I have intervened?
>
clearly a tough question - given the state of society, the prevalence of
guns and predisposition to use them, and the potential for alcohol or
other substance abuse - not an easy decision. The "official" response
is no, report it to someone who has the "authority" to intervene. I
would have made my silent presence as witness obvious - but would not
have actively intervened.
dave
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