Reply #31: Part of having faith & getting strength from it gives believers a capacity

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for giving or competeting with themselves to do god's work that makes them do incredible things with their lives. Look at the orphanages around the World. The devout of over-represented for sure. And it has always been this way.

I think that the lack of questioning authority of it all would drive me nuts... but you have to admit that our religious... devout... friends have an extra emotion called faith. They will invite you into their homes, they will look at a lost cause and say - hello, welcome to my life.

It is a human thing to be born with the capacity to have such faith. And it is a different kind of strength. Admirable from most of my personal experience with the religious .. of any faith. The GOP has ruined the image of the Church. Politics has a way of taking something good and prostituting it. I ignore that and know that when I think of the religious of any kind.. I am thinking of the devout who follow the golden rule and live by it every day.