So I am Here with My first Question

[vulcanlogician]

I guess you could argue that you need faith in the Dharma as a means of solving the problem of suffering in order to practice it fully? But that's not "a faith."

I suppose a hard-nosed skeptic might demand evidence that Dharma leads to liberation. It seems that it could be demonstrated anyway.

In regards to "practicing Buddhism fully" I think most people employ faith when they do that.

So, at a practical level, Buddhism is a faith. But (theoretically) it doesn't require faith.

You could even go deeper with the analysis and say that the end goal of Buddhism (enlightenment) involves a person accepting reality with out any obscurities whatsoever including faith. An enlightened person is without such things as faith, hope, fear, longing etc.

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Schopenhauer's views are similar and he's, obviously, a philosopher and not a faith leader.

Are you a fan of Shopie? I never read any of his books. I feel like Nietzsche (with whom I'm very familiar) might have "ruined" Schopenhauer for me, since one of Nietzsche's pet projects was refuting him.