Reply #55: I take it on faith. [View All]

[merwin]

Believing in something that may or may not have happened 2000 years ago is very different than living a fact-based life today. They aren't mutually exclusive. I believe it because I believe it.

For the same reason that people believe in the ancient portions of evolution. There is no record of this world ever being created, so how do you know it ever was, evolution or not? Before you snap at me on the evolution front, I personally believe that God created the earth and evolution as well, and that a good chunk of the Old Testiment was symbolic and not meant to be taken literally.

And it's not fundamentalist. Fundamentalist is strict and rigid adherance to the fundamental principles of the religion as they believe it, usually with intolerance of other views and secularism.