Is faith in God indispensable to success/successful statesmanship?

Question

no one word redneck answers please /explain your answer tx

and by the way Abraham Lincoln said "yes , true "

The disciplines of science and religion may be mutually exclusive but can, and do, live happily married in the human spirit without a piece of paper or ring. Most of the time. The rest of the time there’s a lot of bickering: science demands proof and literalist fundamentalism demands wholesale belief.

Not surprisingly, fundamentalists are increasing in numbers because we struggle to process all of the information we read on our laptops, Blackberries, and television sets. Before you know it, microchips will be embedded into our visual cortex, taking wireless to a whole new dimension.

Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up and know the milk that you drink is good for you and not a cancerous time bomb? And wouldn’t it be nice to know if you didn’t accept Jesus as your Savior before death that you won’t be sent to Hell? It would, but I’m not sure anyone will ever know the answers to these questions.

That’s why you’ll find a lot of families at church who don’t necessarily share all the

don’t necessarily share all the views of the Church they attend. The data may show the more educated the individual, the more they shy away from literalism, but the data also show a positive correlation between a parishioner’s educational level and church attendance in Vol. 26 of the Review of Religious Research.

An educated parishioner can participate in the social aspects of religion without buying the horse and the cart. There are other sources of truth not found behind a Priest’s confessional door. And there is still room for magical thinking in a rational world.

But Fundamentalism demands a moral imperialism that is unyielding to outside interpretation. It insists that those of us who cannot accept a single belief when interpreting the mysteries in life, miss the beauty of taking that giant leap.

I’d argue that literalists are the ones missing out. They miss out on the wonder of accepting mutiple truths that make our lives so unique. Because someone who can embrace my

accepting mutiple truths that make our lives so unique. . Because someone who can embrace mystery and science is someone who thinks independently, someone who is more tolerant, someone who is open, someone who feels comfortable with real mystery.

The disciplines of science and religion may be mutually exclusive but can, and do, live happily married in the human spirit without a piece of paper or ring. Most of the time. The rest of the time there’s a lot of bickering: science demands proof and literalist fundamentalism demands wholesale belief.

Not surprisingly, fundamentalists are increasing in numbers because we struggle to process all of the information we read on our laptops, Blackberries, and television sets. Before you know it, microchips will be embedded into our visual cortex, taking wireless to a whole new dimension.

Wouldn’t it be nice to wake up and know the milk that you drink is good for you and notand not a cancerous time bomb?

And wouldn’t it be nice to know if you didn’t accept Jesus as your Savior before death that you won’t be sent to Hell? It would, but I’m not sure anyone will ever know the answers to these questions.

That’s why you’ll find a lot of families at church who don’t necessarily share all the views of the Church they attend. The data may show the more educated the individual, the more they shy away from literalism, but the data also show a positive correlation between a parishioner’s educational level and church attendance in Vol. 26 of the Review of Religious Research.

An educated parishioner can participate in the social aspects of religion without buying the horse and the cart. There are other sources of truth not found behind a Priest’s confessional door. And there is still room for magical thinking in a rational world.

But Fundamentalism demands a moral imperialism that is unyielding to outside interpretation. It insists that those of us who cannot accept a single belief when

single belief when interpreting the mysteries in life, miss the beauty of taking that giant leap.

I’d argue that literalists are the ones missing out. They miss out on the wonder of accepting mutiple truths that make our lives so unique. Because someone who can embrace mystery and science is someone who thinks independently, someone who is more tolerant, someone who is open, someone who feels comfortable with real mystery.

Answer 1

yea but its faith in a god, the whole idea of a entity that none of us has personal experience being feeled as being the same thing is impossiable. We all have different perception of life, and its these different view points that make for a very personal version of what god is, so yes, but only in a god not just in god.