{"id":47,"date":"2012-10-19T20:50:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T15:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saravanan.org\/?p=47"},"modified":"2018-07-29T15:48:13","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T10:18:13","slug":"faith-everything-starts-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saravanan.org\/faith-everything-starts-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith: Everything starts here"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Faith\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You can’t question someone’s faith. \u00a0The best you can do is to question the internal inconsistencies in their system of faith.<\/p>\n

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Humor me for a minute. \u00a0I promise you, this is not a cheap re-take of the Matrix movie: How do you know that I exist? \u00a0How do you know that this blog post you are reading now is not just a figment of your imagination? \u00a0How do you know that you are not a schizophrenic, living in your happy imaginary world?<\/p>\n

You can’t question where someone puts their faith in. \u00a0Faith is beyond logic. \u00a0The only time you can successfully question someone’s faith is when their system of faith has an internal conflict. \u00a0No internal-conflict, no questions possible.<\/p>\n

That’s why an argument about existence of God can never be resolved. \u00a0Can you ever resolve an argument if an apple is red or sweet? \u00a0Each person has placed their faith in a different reality and the twain will never meet.<\/p>\n

There are believers who have placed their faith on existence of God. \u00a0And there are non-believers who have placed their faith in non-existence of God. \u00a0Few people like me have decided to fence-sit till such time more evidence comes along to sway us one way or another. \u00a0Or, who knows, may be we are waiting for some thunderbolt to strike our temporal lobe and show the God in all His shining glory.<\/p>\n

We are digressing. \u00a0The point of this post is this: You can’t question someone’s faith. \u00a0The best you can do is to question the internal inconsistencies in their system of faith.<\/p>\n