Faith in terms of religion is no more than a cop out from presenting evidence. When any religious person, including Muslims, pulls the "faith card," they are essentially saying that they have nothing to back up their claim of an all-powerful creator other than the Bible, or their respective holy book. Although, many times religious people are indoctrinated into believing that their holy book is a precise historical text instead of a plagiarized version of all the religious texts and epics before it. In people like this, faith turns into a description of "since I believe in the Bible, you have no refutation because I have all the answers."
Also, in the society we live in currently, the "faith card" is used when a person wants you to back off with the rational questioning and just leave them alone and "respect" their beliefs. Basically, faith has always and will always be used to jump the hurdles of rational questions from nonbelievers/skeptics. The replacement of rational thought with the opposite, faith, is why religion has flourished for so long and fooled so many people.
Also, in the society we live in currently, the "faith card" is used when a person wants you to back off with the rational questioning and just leave them alone and "respect" their beliefs. Basically, faith has always and will always be used to jump the hurdles of rational questions from nonbelievers/skeptics. The replacement of rational thought with the opposite, faith, is why religion has flourished for so long and fooled so many people.
"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy."
-Christopher Hitchens
-Christopher Hitchens
