Faith?
September 29, 2009 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 29, 2009 at 2:20 pm by solarwave.)
Hey guys,
This thread comes from me reading the quote by Dawkins: "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
So my question is what do you think faith is?
I don't understand when atheists say faith is belief without reason since it seems to suggest that all christians are idiots who wake up one morning and decide they are christians for no reason at all, just on the spur of the moment. No one thinks like that, everyone has a reason for what they think even if you disagree with that reason. Eg: When you sit on a chair you dont test whether it is strong enough to hold you first, you have faith that it will hold you because of past experiences and reason, not 'belief in spite of evidence'.
Even if you define faith like that let me trying to give my definition which is closer to what Christians mean.
Faith: Trust in the way reason best points even if it isn't 100% conclusive.
What do you think?
Solarwave
This thread comes from me reading the quote by Dawkins: "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."
So my question is what do you think faith is?
I don't understand when atheists say faith is belief without reason since it seems to suggest that all christians are idiots who wake up one morning and decide they are christians for no reason at all, just on the spur of the moment. No one thinks like that, everyone has a reason for what they think even if you disagree with that reason. Eg: When you sit on a chair you dont test whether it is strong enough to hold you first, you have faith that it will hold you because of past experiences and reason, not 'belief in spite of evidence'.
Even if you define faith like that let me trying to give my definition which is closer to what Christians mean.
Faith: Trust in the way reason best points even if it isn't 100% conclusive.
What do you think?
Solarwave
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