Christian "faith" vs. plain "faith"

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Yes, that's a good point. "Faith" tends to allow no room for doubt, it's absolute certainty. Or at least professed certainty. We know how strong dissidence can be. A rational person having confidence in something would freely admit it is a probability judgement. That makes it more dangerous, a closed mind doesn't learn or improve.

If I remember right, parts of the bible do say about faith being not based on evidence, but just believing anyway. I'm sure it's contradicted elsewhere like everything else.