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macksters t1_j8k45xk wrote

Reply to comment by T1Pimp in Study on former citizens of East Germany sheds light on why people may choose deliberate ignorance by chrisdh79

Indeed. Faith is not wanting to know the reality.

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GLnoG t1_j8kj33e wrote

Anecdotal, but in my own experience with faith: it's not about not wanting to know the reality, but rather about fervently wanting to know and experience a reality that doesn't exists.

Rambling here, but i think you can argue faith is the desire for a certain idea of reality to exist, or the belief that that idea of reality does indeed already exists, or doesn't exists yet; the word "yet" being fundamental to that whole belief system.

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T1Pimp t1_j8l62lr wrote

You can argue that but I dunno it tracks. Religion is still around because humans can't accept their mortality and to outgroup others. There's nothing really about reality in it at all since it's not grounded in anything real... just belief.

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GLnoG t1_j8lut3k wrote

Maybe i worded it wrong, but everytime i used the word "reality", i didn't meant the real reality. The reality they believe in is a conception, an idea.

I thought it was clear, but sorry if it wasn't. English is hard for me.

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