Originally Posted By: VitoC
The thing that always disturbs me about faith is that it seems like it could be used to justify anything and enable people to believe whatever they want, regardless of what the evidence shows. What if a Holocaust denier, when asked about the overwhelming evidence for the Holocaust, said "Yes, the evidence and all logic suggests there was a Holocaust. But I just have faith there wasn't"?


Originally Posted By: VitoC
Doesn't the huge number of world faiths with mutually incompatible beliefs suggest that faith can be an unreliable guide to what's true?


I guess there is no inherent right or wrong in one's faith. It's an individual thing.


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