Comments by "ncwordman" (@ncwordman) on "Newsmax INSANITY: Trump Best Thing for Christianity Since JESUS" video.

  1. I have two main problems with belief. First: How do we know a person really believes what they claim? And second: Belief means you don't know, which is the opposite of fact. So, if you do know, you don't say, "I believe...." So does this woman believe in Jesus? And what does belief mean to her? Does it mean she uses Jesus as an example, and expresses her belief through actions? Or does her belief begin and end with Jesus being the son of God, and he died for our sins, which means, believe this is true and you go to heaven? What does she believe "heaven" is? And does this kind of belief contradict my previously stated axiom, that belief means you don't know? Because, if you believe Jesus died for our sins, etc., then it would seem possible to accept it as fact, not as something unknowable. More to the first point, anyone can claim to believe anything. ANYTHING. I can say that I believe Coca Cola comes from unicorn urine. Who are you to contradict my constitutionally protected right to believe any old thing? And how can you stop me from protesting Coca Cola, and fire bombing all their factories, protesting places that sell it, and claiming that a single political party is behind this vast conspiracy, to feed the public urine, and we should, therefore, storm Congress (or the back rooms of pizza parlors), to stop this real life Soylent Green? Of course, I don't believe that. But can you prove that I don't believe it? or that I do? Can I prove it, either way? No. And, to wrap it up and bring it home, a Trump supporter believes all kinds of crazy things: Dems eat babies, Jewish space lasers, Trump is the best thing since Jesus, or that Trump is the new Cyrus the Great (in the Biblical sense). But do these people, who claim to believe it, really believe it? Are they just saying they do? and are they saying so deliberately, to deflect and misdirect arguments against Trump, or are they just repeating what they heard/read? How far will they go for their beliefs (these things they don't know, but act as if what they don't know are actually facts)? Will they storm Congress? Will they attempt to kidnap Governor Whitmer (of Michigan)? Apparently so. Belief can be a very dangerous thing. It becomes necessary when we don't know, or are unable to know, but still, regardless, claim that we have something better than knowledge (since it can't be disproven) which is that we believe. Here, have a Coke.
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