'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.' - Mark Twain.
He expanded on this later in life, but his bitch of a daughter kept a lot of his personal papers secret. Twain felt that to have faith in anything - anything at all - was a form of lying to oneself. For him, faith fell into two broad categories: believing in things you know aren't true, because you're afraid to disbelieve them, and believing in things that you hope will be true, because it comforts you (he went on to make the point that faith in people is what made him such an atrocious businessman).
I once had a conversation with a theist in RL (the particular franchise doesn't matter) and he claimed that I was performing acts of faith whenever I drove, flipped on a light switch, sat in a chair, and any of a number of commonplace activities. I ran into a metaphorical brick wall trying to explain the difference between 'faith' and 'experience-based expectation'. Still, I remember him a being a nice enough sort, despite this peculiar fetish of his.
Boru
He expanded on this later in life, but his bitch of a daughter kept a lot of his personal papers secret. Twain felt that to have faith in anything - anything at all - was a form of lying to oneself. For him, faith fell into two broad categories: believing in things you know aren't true, because you're afraid to disbelieve them, and believing in things that you hope will be true, because it comforts you (he went on to make the point that faith in people is what made him such an atrocious businessman).
I once had a conversation with a theist in RL (the particular franchise doesn't matter) and he claimed that I was performing acts of faith whenever I drove, flipped on a light switch, sat in a chair, and any of a number of commonplace activities. I ran into a metaphorical brick wall trying to explain the difference between 'faith' and 'experience-based expectation'. Still, I remember him a being a nice enough sort, despite this peculiar fetish of his.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
