I wonder what a factory worker in China expects in terms of retirement?
And how long a Chinese factory worker lives, on average, after retirement?
You would think that the United States Government would know statistics like that?
What am I getting at? Something about complicity? If someone is complicit with "this" then there are also likely to be complicit with "that."? And it is the "that" isn't any good for us?
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I mean seriously, you never thought that way? To some of us that Catholic way of thinking is just natural? And a great basis to expand natural philosophies on?
How hard is a religion or religious faith to believe in when comparing one religion to another?
For example, in "Lutherism", one believes that it doesn't matter what they do in life as long as at the hour of their death they ask to be saved? That is about the most simple faith to believe in.
But faith shouldn't be that simple. Faith shouldn't be understated by religion like that. And there is an interesting phrase, perhaps a crux of a phrase, "The understatement of faith."
Is a secretive belief a hard faith to believe in or an easy one? What type of personal identity, if any, does someone who is of a secretive belief have? How is that good not to have a "personal identity?" It doesn't really equate to scrubbing floors of the Church and being a Saint for it, does it? Soullessness? There are two end of the spectrum on soullessness? The woman that scrubbed the floors of the Church and is called soulless and a great giving person then their is the worst criminal that commits crimes against humanity. Why does the Church label the good as being soulless? If not to say that the true soulless are not to be considered of that characteristic? And we are talking about a human soul.
Did Jesus Christ tell everyone, all his disciples to tell everyone, that when you can't answer an important question you use the response, "That is the mystery of faith?" You see that right there, too, is a very easy religion to believe in. To propagandize that someone really doesn't have to think in order to believe something? "Don't think about what I am telling you, just believe it?" That right there is a cut throat business principle? "Faith, it is better if you don't think about it. It is easier for me if you don't think about what faith means. How many times I gotta tell you dat?"
Perhaps the question becomes, "What am I to think if I am just to believe?" "What am I to believe about anything if I am not to think about it? You are implying that I don't need a rational mind that compares in life in order to live? You are implying that I don't need to have will or assert will in any manner in order to live?"
What type of life is that an advocate of? What type of life does someone like that live? Is that fair to them? Is it fair to the rest of us? What type of negative example to others do people like that put forth?
How many times in life are you going to be right about decisions in life without thinking in order to make them before you get in big trouble? And when you are an advocate of that who are you putting responsibility on? Clear it out, you don't believe in personal responsibility at all, if that is how you live. So create something like that, call it a religion, and the money flows one way? While those who believe are like sheep to those who profess it? Almost a direct quote from Jesus Christ when confronted by the Pharisees. "No I didn't make myself a God. Give me a break. They are like sheep to me." So it all comes full circle with that tie in. The reason to have faith, and not question faith, is because you are like a sheep.
© 2024 Thomas Paul Murphy
Can I ask, who would dare say this to you, that to question is to doubt?
What if you and me could use that as a defense to anything? "For you to question me is for you to doubt." The common reply would be, "Who the hell do you think you are?"
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And here is the semantic conclusion, "If you don't know what it means to believe then you have no faith."
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