RE: why faith fails
January 15, 2020 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2020 at 6:13 pm by Simon Moon.)
(January 15, 2020 at 4:53 pm)Drich Wrote: I would say most of you do not even have the faith of a mustard seed left in you given the expenditure of faith you have already demonstrated trying to hide from God.
I take it as a compliment when I am told I have no faith. At least, with the definition of faith used by theists. Faith is not a virtue.
Faith is not a reliable path to truth, it is indistinguishable from gullibility, as far as I can tell.
When 1.1 billion Hindus, 1.5 billion Muslims, 2.1 billion Christians all use faith to get them to their beliefs, yet according to each of them, the others are wrong about their beliefs, and neither can demonstrate their beliefs are true, that shows the unreliability of faith.
If someone were able to demonstrate that I hold a belief based on faith, you know what I'd do? Stop believing it.
It takes ZERO faith to 'hide' from a being that has not been demonstrated to exist. How much faith does it take you to hide from the Muslim god?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
