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by pionar on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @08:27AM
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Fellow agnostic here, with religious friends and family.
I've asked my dad this before (Catholic), and his response was (paraphrasing):
Of course those stories are parables. There wasn't really a literal burning bush. But, whether the supernatural stuff is real, that's what faith is. Faith means that even when you can't see it, you know it's there because you can feel it. So you trust that what's there is what you think is there.
That's the supernatural parts of religion to my dad (I think he was in his 60s when I asked him about that.)
I've asked my dad this before (Catholic), and his response was (paraphrasing):
Of course those stories are parables. There wasn't really a literal burning bush. But, whether the supernatural stuff is real, that's what faith is. Faith means that even when you can't see it, you know it's there because you can feel it. So you trust that what's there is what you think is there.
That's the supernatural parts of religion to my dad (I think he was in his 60s when I asked him about that.)