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Originally Posted by Jasper84  If someone uses faith as self-satisfying happiness maker, admitting it would be not believing it. would be not using it that way.
And which would you choose, the one with greatest reward and biggest punishment? I would make one for you, but i am not that creative. (I thought there was a thread about that somewhere.) |
Issues of faith and belief are not made by conscious decisions. They occur at the subconscious level over which we have absolutely no control.
Thefore we cannot consciously CHOOSE what we're going to believe.
The comment to which you were referring was inserted by me as a kind of a tongue-in-cheek remark as I think it was originally intended by Pascal.