RE: What is the difference between faith and gullibility?
September 19, 2012 at 1:51 pm
(This post was last modified: September 19, 2012 at 2:25 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 19, 2012 at 2:32 am)Puddleglum Wrote: Seems like 'faith' is just a positive way of describing 'gullibility'. Or put it another way believer are suckers.
No, Faith may overlap gullibility, but faith is not completely the same as gullibility.
For example, if a certain piece of information vital for definitive assessment of a situation is unavilable, and yet progress is desirable, some may get bogged down for the want of definitive support for an intermediate stage of the process. But others may may say "I have faith that this is so" and go on.
In this case "faith" is taken to mean emotional preparedness to gamble with a working assumption.
This is by no means the same as gullibility.
