Re: The war on faith.
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I wasn't raised in an atheist school so I can't use the argument from authority
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I assume this is a dig at formal education, as opposed to thinking what you want to think and never considering an alternative.
If you didn't catch it before, my education was based on religious texts and teaching us to think about the underlying meaning behind the passages. I don't recall ever appealing to the authority of one of my teachers. I simply stated that because, in my nearly 15 years of education, I never saw a Bible passage advocating an *unjust* war or Jesus claiming we should go out and kill in the name of Christianity, I choose to continue to believe that Christianity is not "pro-war". If disagreeing with an atheist/agnostic with no religious education about a religious topic is "appealing to authority" now, then I guess I will continue to appeal to authority....
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