Why is faith important?

[EGross]

Check out these words for belief.

It is obvious that we assign certain words to religion because the religious experience normally speaks of these things. For example while the atheist may have a "mystical experience", he will most likely not use that word, and will struggle to find one since that association is normally a religious one.

My act of making such a disctinction was to derail the idea that there is no different between the faith that the alarm clock will wake me up and the faith that Jesus ever lived. And in trying to pidgeon-hole these terms, it was probably a disservice by me, but because of the limitations of language, I did not see an alternative way to explain to the religious that "faith" in one sense, which is based on non-provable past is not the same as "faith" in a possible present or future.

So the title of the thread has nothing to do with me having faith that my alarm clock will wake me up in the morning, but has everything to do with believing in the supernatural, for which there is no relationship.