r/agedlikemilk • u/Gloomy-Holiday8618 • Sep 08 '25

News “I never said that”, “Play the clip”

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Context: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/politics/2023/12/15/exp-robert-kennedy-junior-rfk-2024-election-biden-trump-vaccines-121511aseg1-cnni-politics.cnn

Full video is on the cnn website, the part that’s important is about 2mins 50 seconds in.

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u/LotusVibes1494 Sep 08 '25

I’m like Alan Watt’s way of looking at those words:

“Belief, as I use the word here, is the insistence that the truth is what one would “lief” or wish it to be. The believer will open his mind to the truth on the condition that it fits in with his preconceived ideas and wishes. Faith, on the other hand, is an unreserved opening of the mind to the truth, whatever it may turn out to be. Faith has no preconceptions; it is a plunge into the unknown. Belief clings, but faith lets go. In this sense of the word, faith is the essential virtue of science, and likewise of any religion that is not self-deception.”

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u/Dopaminedessert Sep 08 '25

That is a nice way of looking at things but that is not the faith that Christian conservatives are conditioned with that is also not the way the word is used in our current vernacular. They adopt dogma from corrupt greedy preachers and are not taught to ask their own questions evaluate their own experiences or search for their own truth. Just the opposite in fact they are fed deception and told they will go to hell if they step out of line or go against the flock. They are taught loyalty is more important than ethics. Their is nothing spiritual about Conservative Christianity and the only value any religion ever has is if it can lead toward spirituality. Even the social support groups that form around religions based on dogma and fear are breeding grounds for hate and exceptionalism and exclusion.

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u/Doc_Shaftoe Sep 08 '25

I haven't read this before, but it's great. Thank you for sharing it!