Is 'faith' really a 'great cop-out'?

[Kyuuketsuki]

Yes but I wouldn't call believing that he sun will come up "having faith" I would call that just a matter of understanding. Not absolute knowledge. Just understanding. You may not have to understand "Why?" the sun comes up, you just have to understand that it does. Perhaps you trust that the sun comes up you could say.

Ultimately it's just words, the English language is probably the most flexible because not only has it absorbed many words from many other languages, not only does it pretty much rule supreme as a technical language but there are many words for the same idea and many ideas for one word ... it makes it flexible. So yes, faith, I think is a correct word for what I was saying as long as it is clear (and I think I made it so) that that faith is not the faith of the religious kind. Obviously my understanding of why the sun rises in the east helps

Kyu

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Would you say that you have faith that 'religious' faith is nonsense?

Religious faith is understandable within a given framework that framework being one of scientific ignorance or wishful thinking.

Kyu