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Should faith without an authority be banned?
- Thread starter Ozzie
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I think it can be. I think there can be religion that has no deity.
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
Personal experience is a fine authority. Inevitably, we are all our own authority when it comes to interpretation. Attempting to ban a faith is futile anyway.
Ozzie
Well-Known Member
I don't think any faith should be nullified due to the characteristics of a leader. Most belief is incidentally ignorant of the "leader" BTW.
mcteethinator
Idiosyncratic Muslim
...No.
Isabella Lecour
amor aeternus est
The cult of follow the leader isn't what I'd consider a virtue. It's too easy for a person of great charisma to take over a group of followers and led them to destruction with their consent, even if naively and ignorantly.
There are two different questions being asked here. 1) "Should faith without an authority be banned? " and 2) "Is faith without an authority feasible ( atheism is included here in "faith")? "
I don't see how one could ban a faith that has no person of authority.So why would you ban it? On what grounds would a faith require banning? Who would be doing the banning...government..other religions...who thinks they have that authority? Public harm..? What would be the criteria?
I don't see how it would cause public harm at all. I don't understand how a ban on a particular faith would even work. It wouldn't wipe out the faith, just drive it underground for awhile until it reemerges or dies out.
OK faith without authority...it is feasible if your asking does it work, function as a working faith for a person; assuming the authority is an outside authority, not the self. Faith is belief, emotionally based so I don't see how an outside authority figure is even required.
There are two different questions being asked here. 1) "Should faith without an authority be banned? " and 2) "Is faith without an authority feasible ( atheism is included here in "faith")? "
I don't see how one could ban a faith that has no person of authority.So why would you ban it? On what grounds would a faith require banning? Who would be doing the banning...government..other religions...who thinks they have that authority? Public harm..? What would be the criteria?
I don't see how it would cause public harm at all. I don't understand how a ban on a particular faith would even work. It wouldn't wipe out the faith, just drive it underground for awhile until it reemerges or dies out.
OK faith without authority...it is feasible if your asking does it work, function as a working faith for a person; assuming the authority is an outside authority, not the self. Faith is belief, emotionally based so I don't see how an outside authority figure is even required.
Would you please rephrase the question?
Guitar's Cry
Disciple of Pan
I agree. Faith exists to fulfill a need in an individual.
Scuba Pete
Le plongeur avec attitude...
I learned to question authority as a kid.
As an adult I finally figured out that they don't even know the answers!
As an adult I finally figured out that they don't even know the answers!
lilithu
The Devil's Advocate
There is no such thing as faith without an authority.
Buttons*
Glass half Panda'd
mcteethinator
Idiosyncratic Muslim
Who's an authority for atheism? Are you thinking governmental authority?
Most anarchists are atheists.
lilithu
The Devil's Advocate
Usually, it's reason and science. But not always. As for what person is an authority for atheism, I'd say the individual him or herself.