Substitute "faith" with "training" and or "reflexes" and I'm there.
Muscle memory training/reflex, brain memory training/reflex (rote), religious training/reflex. With enough training actions can be taken without conscious thought. You don't think about taking a step/walking now because you have been training your brain since infancy and it has become more of a reflex than conscious effort. However, if you want to step on a particular random object it requires conscious thought because it is new.
Do you have this "faith" during an activity which is new to you, or not new but not practiced/trained either? I know I don't. I don't think most musicians, athletes or chess players would either.
With religion, if you are taught and then constantly practice thanking the sky guy this becomes a reflex reaction. If you choose to call it faith, I don't care. Shit, I can still repeat the apostles creed but have not consciously said it in years. Is the fact that I can repeat it now faith?
I have a friend whose mother, in early stages of dementia, falls down and immediately starts calling out "help me jesus" repeatedly. She does this anytime she experiences stress. This is simply a reflex reaction of religious memory training because she has been saying this phrase for decades. If you ask her if she expected jesus to actually help she will tell you no.
Muscle memory training/reflex, brain memory training/reflex (rote), religious training/reflex. With enough training actions can be taken without conscious thought. You don't think about taking a step/walking now because you have been training your brain since infancy and it has become more of a reflex than conscious effort. However, if you want to step on a particular random object it requires conscious thought because it is new.
Do you have this "faith" during an activity which is new to you, or not new but not practiced/trained either? I know I don't. I don't think most musicians, athletes or chess players would either.
With religion, if you are taught and then constantly practice thanking the sky guy this becomes a reflex reaction. If you choose to call it faith, I don't care. Shit, I can still repeat the apostles creed but have not consciously said it in years. Is the fact that I can repeat it now faith?
I have a friend whose mother, in early stages of dementia, falls down and immediately starts calling out "help me jesus" repeatedly. She does this anytime she experiences stress. This is simply a reflex reaction of religious memory training because she has been saying this phrase for decades. If you ask her if she expected jesus to actually help she will tell you no.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
