Question about "faith"

[Mister Agenda]

extremely interesting statement "...Is this question ever going to tie back to not believing in God or gods, the only thing all atheists have in common?..."

My question to an atheist is not "why don't you have "eternal faith in God", but what do you have "eternal faith" in? If anything. If you feel that that the word "faith" is more of a religious term, then it would be very hard for you to relate to the question about faith. It wouldn't apply to you, it would be an unfair question. 

Would it be safe to say, that an atheist doesn't have "eternal faith" in anything...not even nature will last, our sun will eventually burn out a bazillion years from now.

Great Post !! Thank you!!

I'm willing to go with 'eternal faith' as a trust similar to that which gnostic monotheists hold in God or particularly strict religious people hold in their dogma, as a trust that can't be conceived to be misplaced. I don't have that kind of faith in anything. The available evidence suggests that our sun will eventually burn out and after trillions of years all that will remain of matter and energy in the universe is an ever-expanding and thinning barely detectable scattering of photons. But if evidence were found tomorrow that overturned that conception of the future of the sun and the universe, I would change my opinion to match the new evidence rather than hold on to my previous conception. I think that willingness to change opinions to match our ever-increasing but always-finite knowledge of reality is a virtue. Of course, that's not my position as an atheist, it's my position as a rational skeptic.