RoadRunner79 Wrote:LadyForCamus Wrote:Faith is believing without evidence. Believing without rational justification. What else in your day to day life do you believe without evidence? What else in the world besides the existence of Yahweh do you take on blind faith? My two headed dinosaur? I bet not.
I would agree with the first statement to an extent, but not with the second as a definition of faith.
I believe that the bank has my money, when they say they do.
I believe that science is a good method to study physical reality and that it will continue to be so.
I believe that my parents and family, will be there for me if I need.
I did notice, that you inserted the word "blind" prior to faith now....
Don't you believe those things based on past performance? That's evidence. And if your money wasn't there when it was supposed to be enough times, you would change your mind in light of that new evidence. Faith in the sense of 'earned trust' applies, but not faith in the religious sense. We should probably use the word 'trust' instead of 'faith' for that kind of faith (belief your family will be there for you kind of faith) in this conversation to avoid confusion and unintentional equivocation.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
