RE: Is 'faith' really a 'great cop-out'?
November 3, 2008 at 9:56 am
(This post was last modified: November 3, 2008 at 9:57 am by Kyuuketsuki.)
(November 2, 2008 at 5:59 pm)Daystar Wrote: Faith doesn't imply blindness or lack of knowledge. You get to know your parents, your friends, your mate - and have faith in them based upon what you have come to know about them, not what you feel or are blind to.
As others are pointing out there is a huge difference between faith of the religious kind (faith without knowledge & often in spite of it as Dawkins would say) and faith based on reasonable expectation (the kind based on experience) ... I have "faith" that the sun will rise in the east each morning, that faith is not religious but based on reasonable expectation based on the fact that I have been taught that it does so and my own experience has confirmed that. I have faith that my family loves me because I have a kind of idea what love is and because they are fairly demonstrative people and make it clearly known to me that I am in some way very important to them (and not just for the money) ... again, although it is possible to interpret these things in a variety of ways, that is not a religious faith but one based on experience.
Religious faith OTOH is inherently based on blind trust and if you like we can put it to the test
Kyu
