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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
This is why I don't get why people dislike the Elites' continued faith towards the Forerunners. They have no reason to not worship them, for in the beginning they didn't believe in the Path to the Journey anyway, they only believed in the Forerunners' divinity. The Prophets lies, revelation of these lies yet their continued belief is not a matter of them being stubborn. They've simply reverted more to their old faiths, turning on the faith that was more or less forced upon them.
Um, belief is not a mattress. If your faith crumbles, you just cannot take up another one in its place as if it is a matter of choice. You need a reason to believe something, and it is not possible whilst there are lingering doubts about it. If your religion is smashed I cannot see how it is feasible to just adopt another. You would then have the knowledge of how well fabricated it was and how well mislead you were; you should now be more wary of such a thing. The Elites having the Great Journey revealed as a lie -regardless of who it is from, it is still supernatural like the belief in the Forerunners- should make them more skeptical of the belief in the Forerunner's divinity. It would be like the resurrection of Christ being disproved. It would not disprove God, but I think that it would set in motion a cascade of doubt that could only lead to apostasy. It would certainly topple Christianity in a heartbeat.
Oh but wait, factor in: The Flood, the Halo Array that wipes out all life in the galaxy, the Forerunners who lived in that galaxy when it was fired resulting in massive amounts of DEAD Forerunners, but they still believe that they are gods? Dead Gods don't exist, because they are dead.
[Edited on 09.11.2011 10:44 AM PDT]