Faith-what you believe without evidence.
Because when you have evidence that has been verified scientifically it becomes "knowledge".
Knowledge-by the way, is how my wife describes her spiritualist church beliefs because of her "experiences", none of which would stand up to scientific scrutiny but there you go.
So belief-something you think is true without direct evidence.
I believe that there is not currently an elephant in my kitchen-this is a reasonable belief to have because there has never been an elephant in my kitchen and I think that it is unlikely that anyone would have smuggled one in in the ten minutes since I was in there.
I am now looking at the kitchen and "know" that there is no elephant in the kitchen.
But religious belief takes it a step further than these mundane beliefs, they layer more and more bizarre things onto the belief until what they actually believe takes a turn for the absurd and naive.
Because when you have evidence that has been verified scientifically it becomes "knowledge".
Knowledge-by the way, is how my wife describes her spiritualist church beliefs because of her "experiences", none of which would stand up to scientific scrutiny but there you go.
So belief-something you think is true without direct evidence.
I believe that there is not currently an elephant in my kitchen-this is a reasonable belief to have because there has never been an elephant in my kitchen and I think that it is unlikely that anyone would have smuggled one in in the ten minutes since I was in there.
I am now looking at the kitchen and "know" that there is no elephant in the kitchen.
But religious belief takes it a step further than these mundane beliefs, they layer more and more bizarre things onto the belief until what they actually believe takes a turn for the absurd and naive.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
