Doc, I think your observation here is completely legitimate. Perhaps it points up the wide variety of things that could result from faith. The madness of Trump support is like a religious faith. It is long on the thrills of believing together and very short on clarification by reason. The rise of this cult has seriously injured my hopes of positive directions for faith .Doctor CamNC4Me wrote: ↑Sat Feb 06, 2021 6:59 pmPerhaps faith ‘the power’ is the power of consensus? It’s typically when people act in concert that mountains are literally moved, cities are razed or built, and MLMs make a few people wealthy (heh). If faith is the power of consensus then it could be that God, as manifested through his interlocutors, becomes real because the works of men in concert with faith-consensus are made manifest by that unity of belief, hierarchy, and action.
- Doc
You have focused on faith as a power of consensus. In that view I do not think any society can survive without it. That statement is certainly not focused upon religious faith, or that alone. A society certainly does not need consensus about everything, it needs enough to avoid tearing itself to pieces.
I have hoped for a Christianity which holds science and reason as having a central importance. Those things help us understand the reality which we share with others. That sharing is necessary for human respect and cooperation between people. I fear I see American Christianity heading in the opposite direction. and