RE: What makes something a faith?
April 27, 2013 at 6:42 pm
(This post was last modified: April 27, 2013 at 6:49 pm by Ryantology.)
I think of faith, generic faith, as taking a position with incomplete information. I have faith that the evolution theory is the best description of the process of life on earth, and my faith is based upon an embarrassment of riches in terms of observed data, experimentation, and established biological fact. That faith is neither blind nor absolute. If more evidence is uncovered, properly analyzed, and it produces a result which negates evolution, I have no choice but to abandon the incorrect theory.
Not all faith is equal. Religious faith is inventing an answer based on no information. It is a poisonous combination of ignorance and wishful thinking, where the answers are presupposed and the only reason to ever look for evidence is when someone questions the presupposition (and you are not allowed to kill or silence them). Religious faith treats the presupposition as established fact, and makes it the ultimate crime to deny or challenge its veracity. As is very evident by listening to the likes of Christians on this forum, religious faith takes the word 'knowledge', beats it to death, rapes the corpse, and makes an outfit from the skins, which they wear proudly and insist that it means that their petty delusions are equal to (or greater) than actual, real knowledge derived from critical study and experimentation.
Not all faith is equal. Religious faith is inventing an answer based on no information. It is a poisonous combination of ignorance and wishful thinking, where the answers are presupposed and the only reason to ever look for evidence is when someone questions the presupposition (and you are not allowed to kill or silence them). Religious faith treats the presupposition as established fact, and makes it the ultimate crime to deny or challenge its veracity. As is very evident by listening to the likes of Christians on this forum, religious faith takes the word 'knowledge', beats it to death, rapes the corpse, and makes an outfit from the skins, which they wear proudly and insist that it means that their petty delusions are equal to (or greater) than actual, real knowledge derived from critical study and experimentation.
