What I meant was, if you define religion as believing in imaginary things that can't be held or touched, the value in money is like that, and so is the Canadian border. They are mutually agreed on by people, common beliefs. But they exist only in the mind; they are not provable or tangible things. You are right, there is no supernatural component. But "I agree to honor the value in this piece of wrinkled green paper" is a statement of faith. You are agreeing to have faith in other people's honoring it too. That is a faith. No, it is not a faith in a supernatural being.
As for Jeff Eyges, I mentioned some obvious moral history, factual, not assertion, and, I mentioned the begetting and rearing of like-minded children, who are also factual things, not assertion. You know as well as I do there is a huge problem in generational transmission of non-Orthodox Judaism(s). You know as well as I do there are, in many cases, no breathing bodies at all to transmit to. Results matter, don't they?
There is wiggle room, and uncertainty, concerning the word "only". It's a big, varied world, obviously. Takes all kinds. But results do matter.
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What I meant was, if you
What I meant was, if you define religion as believing in imaginary things that can't be held or touched, the value in money is like that, and so is the Canadian border. They are mutually agreed on by people, common beliefs. But they exist only in the mind; they are not provable or tangible things. You are right, there is no supernatural component. But "I agree to honor the value in this piece of wrinkled green paper" is a statement of faith. You are agreeing to have faith in other people's honoring it too. That is a faith. No, it is not a faith in a supernatural being.
As for Jeff Eyges, I mentioned some obvious moral history, factual, not assertion, and, I mentioned the begetting and rearing of like-minded children, who are also factual things, not assertion. You know as well as I do there is a huge problem in generational transmission of non-Orthodox Judaism(s). You know as well as I do there are, in many cases, no breathing bodies at all to transmit to. Results matter, don't they?
There is wiggle room, and uncertainty, concerning the word "only". It's a big, varied world, obviously. Takes all kinds. But results do matter.