Where does strong SKEPTICISM arise from? Does fundamentalism always result in a correspondingly strong DOUBT?

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In other words, is the strength of the doubt expressed by one group equal and opposite to the strength of the faith expressed by another?

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Answer 1

no some of us are born again

Answer 2

Rather than tackle this question on a global level, I would prefer to bring it down to me. I can only speak for one person and that is me. I think that our community, our world if you will is just a reflection of our inner selves and I for one have been filled with the strength of doubt on one side and the strength of faith on the other. I think skepticism is born from inner questioning and can and often does result in a strengthening of individual faith (in whatever it is that one believes). It's sort of like yin and yang. Or darkness and light, or here and there. So I think that in order to have one thing, you must have had the experience of the other...and that neither is better or worse than the other, they are just different extremes on the same continuum. The question may not really be from where does skepticism arise, but more succinctly it may be to where does skepticism take us?

Answer 3

You mean is "doubt" just a reaction to "faith"? Well, I suppose if nobody had ever invented God, there would be no reason to doubt His existence. And of course the skeptic tends to focus his criticisms on the superstitions of the society in which he happens to live - there's no particular point, for most ordinary purposes, in a 21st-century American disputing the existence of Ahura Mazda, or Huitzilopochtli. It's much more practical to attack Christianity and Islam.

Answer 4

"An object at rest or in a state of uniform motion," (such as my sleeping cat, Max) "tends to remain in that state,"
until I get bored enough to try out Law II. Law two says, "When an object is accelerated by force," (such as being woken up by my grabbing his belly fur) "the amount of acceleration is equal to the force divided by the mass of the object."

The big trouble usually comes with Law III. Law three says, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." By sneaking up and grabbing Max's belly fur, I do not obtain an equal and opposite reaction, but get instead a reaction far more violent than the action delivered.

So I think the angel from 'Heaven can wait' got it right when he said (paraphrasing) 'the chance of an individual being right increases in direct proportion to how strongly others are trying to prove him wrong.'

Answer 5

Well, the way I heard it...

Skeptics keep an open mind about everything.

Fundamentalists are those people who worship God's Fundament... Ergo, they have a terrible case of recto-cranial inversion; which, if left untreated, can regress to ano-cephalic impaction. That is, they have their heads up thier *sses (recto-cranial inversion). Ano-cephalic impaction is when they've had their heads up their *sses so long that it's a permanent condition, known colloquially as sh*t for brains syndrome. Basically, I think Fundamentalists are Fundamentally Wrong! But, that's just my opinion; I could be wrong...

Answer 6

If I am understanding the question correctly, then yes. Both sides are equal in their search, doubt, findings and conculsion. Both sides are not in agreement in the direction they chose to look for answers

Answer 7

It's a continuum and fundamentalism and aggressive atheism are the two polar opposites.

Answer 8

Not in the faithful paradigm, which considers itself in contact with God, who is inclusive of that skepticism and everything about it, but exists anyway.

Answer 9

No. Skepticism is drawn from a rational, curious and questioning mind. It is independent from faith and belief.

Answer 10

there will always be 'too many' doubts on both sides, that's why they created dogmas.

Answer 11

comes from within .. and/or from the parents/family who raised them .. right or wrong they seem to fight for what they believe in ..