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Building a Faith Community Without Belief in God Image by Andrew Dong
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Building a Faith Community Without Belief in God

November 7, 2017June 11, 2021 16 min read Jeffrey Howard Christianity, Community, Essential Reading, Myth

Tranquil chaos surrounded me, but I fervently believed that the humanities could offer answers to the big questions. Could a commonwealth of non-believers offer the same benefits of a faith community?

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“Pragmatism, on the other hand, asks its usual question. ‘Grant an idea or belief to be true,’ it says, ‘what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone’s actual life? How will the truth be realized? What experiences will be different from those which would obtain if the belief were false? What, in short, is the truth’s cash-value in experiential terms?'” — William James

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