RE: Question about "faith"
September 16, 2020 at 1:09 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2020 at 1:33 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 15, 2020 at 11:57 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(September 11, 2020 at 9:20 am)Nomad Wrote: Your definition is wrong. Faith is simply the unjustified belief in a god for which you have no evidence. As an atheist, I cannot have faith.
That's the atheist strawman definition lol. Within Christianity faith is synonyms with trust.
Actually, Nomad gave a good definition of faith.
To understand it better look at it this way: Faith is pretending to know things you don’t know.
For instance, if a religious person says “I have faith in God.”
What he is actually saying is: “I pretend to know things I don’t know about God.”
Or when a theist says: “Life has no meaning without faith.”
He is saying: “Life has no meaning if I stop pretending to know things I don’t know.”
Or when a religious person says: “I don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.”
He is saying: “I don’t pretend to know things I don’t know enough to be an atheist.”
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
