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In reply to the discussion: What is a belief system? [View all]Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)62. Creation stories aren't meant to be taken literally.
I was reading a theologian by the name of David Bentley Hart who said that fundamentalist Christianity really wasn't popular until the 20th century. Religious texts are steeped in allegory and metaphor. It's usually fundamentalists that take the literal view, and I think that's wrong, too. For me, religion is about the interior world in the individual. That's how the people at my church practice. We are not evangelicals. As for miracles, who knows? I've had things that have happened to me that seem unexplainable and beyond coincidence, but there wasn't a scientist around to study it, and much of that kind of thing has to do with the interior world of the individual as well.
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Can you define belief system without using the words belief or system in the definition
marylandblue
May 2018
#5
That's pretty good, but what if I don't have a religion, philosophy or moral code
marylandblue
May 2018
#9
Worthless as a concept related to religion discussions, not worthless in general
marylandblue
May 2018
#88
In the simplest sense it's a mental construct that defines the world around you.
Major Nikon
May 2018
#23
Some philosophers would argue philosophy encompasses science rather than the other way around
Major Nikon
May 2018
#51
It's confusing because apologists have made it a keystone in some of their worst argumentation.
Act_of_Reparation
May 2018
#57
I thought I'd get a better idea of what makes something a true belief system
marylandblue
May 2018
#97