Timeline for How can religious faith be epistemically justified?
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| Apr 10, 2018 at 22:40 | comment | added | elliot svensson | It was directed at the questioner, who specified Christianity. Perhaps there is a distinction there I didn't pick up between those who criticize Christianity and those who criticize faith in general. | |
| Apr 10, 2018 at 22:36 | comment | added | DoubleD | This answer is deeply flawed; it conflates Christianity with faith. Ghandi was deeply spiritual, as are some of the movements that opposed traditional Christianity within the United States. While some people criticize the Christian faith primarily or exclusively, there are quite a few people who view all faith (personal or organized) as a weakness. A loss of reverence for Christianity in the West may allow Westerners to criticize faith more loudly, but criticism of faith generally applies far beyond Christianity. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 2:56 | comment | added | Nij | Atheist \= Non-religious. The CCCP may have been "explicitly atheist" but it revolved around its own religions in the cults of personality and blind adherence to various dogma. | |
| Mar 31, 2018 at 1:09 | comment | added | March Ho | The second most powerful empire during the Cold War, the Soviet Union, was explicitly atheist, and dominated the majority of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Would Eastern Europeans and Central Asians therefore associate atheism with unjust authority? | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 19:30 | history | edited | elliot svensson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2018 at 19:07 | comment | added | elliot svensson | My answer is not directed at any particular claim against religion, such as its weakness, but at the action of despising people who believe religious claims, and the preference against hearing what religion has to say. I think that recent history can help to explain this posture. | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 19:03 | comment | added | user30980 | I disagree that this answers the question. Gandhi's philosophy was informed heavily by the Vedic tradition, and though the rejection of the British Empire in India may suggest interfaith conflict, if anything this history suggests neither the British Empire nor India considered faith "a weakness." | |
| Mar 30, 2018 at 17:45 | history | edited | elliot svensson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 30, 2018 at 14:26 | history | answered | elliot svensson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |