Can an Atheist argue someone out of faith?

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well EV when ever you want to come to an agreement that it's far more unlikely for an atheist to fully understand faith in God, than a theist and thus commonly confuse http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith with their own colloquial use of http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blind+faith I'll stop bringing it up. Faith isn't about proof, it's in confidently trusting that the gaps that experience has are proven to be just as consistent as the experience. It's not being in denial of anything, nor self-justification or rationalization.

We agree that faith isn't about proof then.

But then, science isn't about proof either. Maths and (other) tautology are about proof. Science is about evidence.

And faith doesn't even have evidence.

Without evidence faith can never be validly evident to anyone, it's just delusive magical and nonsensical thinking. If faith-based thinking were to be evidentially supported it would no longer be faith-based thinking: It would then be evidence-based thinking.

Since faith lacks evidence that's what makes it blind. Faith therefore=blind trust. Trust without evidence, belief without evidence=faith.

The colloquial term "blind faith" is handy because it expresses how faith actually is. But then on the other hand it is but a tautology. It's a tautology like a lot of colloquialisms are.

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Without objective evidence faith can never be validly evident to everyone. Subjective evidence can be indicative of subjective belief based in reality. You're presupposing faith has no evidence. That it's reasoned without experiential evidence and therefore a delusion. From your perspective it seems perfectly valid, because you've had no experiential data to factor into the equation. However, from my perspective, I experience something then try to reason why and how I came to experience it. I don't limit evidence to only the material, nor do I care about it's objectivity. I'm not trying to prove it to anyone. I'm merely trying to validate what's true to me. I believe in the existence of God based on a trust that experiences I can't explain and can't measure lead to the inclination that God exists and is working and has been revealed in my life. Luckily I know lots of other people who have had the same experiences and reached the same conclusions independently, lending even more credence to my own subjective, indicative evidence; thus overcoming the threshold for reality for me.