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turdcollector69@lemmy.world 2 days agoIn your own words, what is faith?
In mine:
The denial of basic facts and the willingness to persevere in the face of all logic on instruction from a higher power for unknowable reasons.
There’s no shot at converting these people because they already decided the outcome of any logical argument put before them.
To them each incongruous fact is just a weird shaped puzzle piece that’ll fit their world view no matter how contrived.
It’s why cult deprogramming is so incredibly difficult.
rapchee@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
i don’t have a precise definition, i kinda tried but it doesn’t really matter imo (the definition, i mean)
my point is that i think we shouldn’t just give up trying, at worst it helps atheists debate, but i might help someone leave their religion
people do sometimes leave cults and religions. we might prevent someone joining a really bad one