Does thinking, logic and reason undermine faith? Does questioning what you believe in undermine faith? Or does faith require you to never think about it? Are you prohibited from asking yourself if what you believe in is actually true? What is the relationship between faith and reason? Can faith and logic coexist? Can science and faith coexist? Or is it that in order to have faith that you can't question it? Do you have to just believe it? If you question it - is that a sin?
What is the relationship between faith and reality? Do you have faith because what you have faith in is actually real? Or does reality not play a role? What if you found out that your neighbor's religion was more real than yours? Would you convert, or stick with the religion you have?
If what you believe is real then there's nothing to fear about exploring reality the way it really is.
These are the kinds of questions that we are trying to trick you into thinking about. We want you to start wondering about the relationship between reality and what you believe. If what you believe in is real, there's nothing to worry about, is there. If what you believe is real then thinking about reality will strengthen your beliefs. If what you believe in isn't real however, then thinking about reality can create a conflict. Do you stick with faith, or go with what's real?
Besides, if you believe in God, and if God is real and almighty then surely God isn't afraid of reality is he? Why would a real god not want you to think about reality? If your god is fake however then those who are promoting the fake god wouldn't want you to think about reality. Reality is a threat to all forms of fiction based beliefs. Reality isn't afraid of being questioned.
If what you believe is real, then we want to believe in it too. But if what you believe isn't real, then do you really want to stick with it?
Suppose that all the Bibles in the world were suddenly destroyed and couldn't be reconstructed from memory. Would people still believe in Jesus? Would it be the same as the Bible today? Suppose that all the science books in the world were wiped out and no one remembered science. If people started rediscovering science from scratch would evolution still exist? Would gravity still exist? Would we come to the same conclusions if we started over a second time? Yep - we sure would!
We aren't here to undermine faith. We are here to undermine fictional beliefs. What are fictional beliefs? The simple answer is - every other religion except yours. You would at least admit that there are a lot of religions out there that are dead wrong. So isn't it a good thing if the Church of Reality were to undermine all of them? Yes - of course - that would be a good thing. And - if what you believe is the really real true religion, then I'm sure that we will confirm that and you can go on believing in what you believe in now.
If your God is afraid of reality then how almighty is he?
We believe that false faiths will not stand up to the tests. False faith isn't accountable. False faith will not stand up to the purification of truth. If you bring falsehood out into the light it will disintegrate. But real truth will pass the test of scrutiny and will be strengthened by doubt. We are not afraid of reality, are you?
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