Faith

[ApeNotKillApe]

Flayed Anus Is Throbbing Horrendously

[robvalue]

In that case:

Find An Internal Technician Hastily!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

So what have you got against trust, you trust things every day that are not in your control.

GC

I think you're confusing 'faith' with 'reasonable expectation'. When I flip a light switch in my home or shop, I have trust that the light will come one, since this has not only happened thousands of times but has happened more often than not. The trust I have that a darkened room will become a well-lit room isn't a matter of faith, it is a matter of reasonable expectation. If I were to trust that flipping the same switch would result in a tidal wave of hyper-intelligent Jaffa cakes spewing out of the light fixture - all of them dressed in tutus and wielding wickedly sharp pork sausages - that would be a matter of faith.

Christians expect to go to Heaven, Muslims to Paradise, Buddhists expect to achieve Nirvana. But none of these expectations can be called 'reasonable' because none of them represent a reliable experience. These expected definitions are matters of faith. One might even define faith as trust that things which have never happened before will happen tomorrow.

Boru

[Edwardo Piet]

Fundamentally Awful Ideas That Hinder

Fucking An Insect That's Hot

(OK that last one didn't quite work out )

Oh I only just realized what people are actually doing lol.

F.A.I.T.H. Got it.

Fragrant Asshole Is Totally Horrid

[Edwardo Piet]

Fraudulent And Intentionally Totally Horrific

Facebooking Any Idiotic Twat's Halo

Friendly? As If! Timelessly Hideous

Forthright Anal Insight; Twice Helpless

Fretting And Inferring Troubled Heathens

Forbidden Atheist Is Teased Horrendously

Folks Always Intend To Harm

Fellow Angel Is Twice Hated

Free Acidic Ignorance To Hurt

Frenetic Animalistic Idiot Touches Himself

Friends And Idiots Turn Horrid

Firmly Absent In The Head

Faith? Atheists Ignore That Horseshit!

[ApeNotKillApe]

French Albanians Invading The Hague

[Drich]

It is such a word of convolution.

When relying upon the word, does one resort to reality?

Or rather, does one rely upon the word in deference to a religious system that has never provided a shred of evidence during its entire history of existence?

I certainly know I prefer the reality over the emotional blackmail.

Faith.

I have faith that those also claiming to have it will discount everything here for the sake of comfort.

Faith is nothing special, yet it affects too many people in the wrong way.

I have faith, that one day people will no longer be plagued by faith.

When dealing in the christian religion their are two types of faith. the faith the church/religion requires and the faith Jesus says we need.

Faith the church is asking for is monument. is a mountain of belief that very few people can generate without just burying their heads in the sand and just hoping they have things right.

The faith Christ asks for is that of a mustard seed (tiny.)

So why is their such a large gap between what the church asks for and what Jesus asks for?
Because God no longer supports the church as he did. He supports individuals. this essentially means the church can't sell you assurance nor exchange it for adherence to it's doctrines. Why? because the God of the bible is not about Doctrinal behaviors, and the Church is all about it's various doctrines. Because of this God does not support/empower the church, because he does not want people to think this church is 'right/true christianity.'

Rather He empowers individuals who do as they are asked and plant their 'mustard seed' of faith where He tells people to plant it. (in A/S/K for the Holy Spirit) Once you obtain a measure of the Holy Spirit God works with you directly and no 'faith' is required.

[drfuzzy]

The reverse acronyms are brilliant.
I still like Peter Boghossian's take on faith:  "Faith is pretending to know things you don't know."

[Edwardo Piet]

Faith is being either ignorant but not stupid or both ignorant and stupid.

[robvalue]

Haha nice list Evie