RE: Why You Should Be Atheist
October 13, 2013 at 11:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2013 at 12:04 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
@Dunno
It's true that there are different meanings of faith.
It seems as though you continue to defend a meaning that nobody here is disputing. The meaning you describe is more akin to believing something. But one can generate any number of objective and verifiable reasons to support all of the things you listed. For example, you said:
"My faith is that people will continue to create and discover more"
You have the evidence of human achievements across thousands of years to support this claim, and therein, objective evidence to back it up. Evidence that can be verified by a third party.
This is not the kind of faith we take issue with.
A claim about a God does not correlate with our experience of reality, and it is indistinguishable from a comforting lie. When someone says they have faith in God's existence, they are committing themselves to believing something without having any basis for the belief whatsoever. It's the epitome of a blind and baseless assumption supported by circular reasoning and kept alive by self delusion and arrogance.
In short, your usage of the word faith, and the context in which you are applying it, is creating disagreement. There are perhaps more accurate words to describe the sentiment you are trying to convey. At least, that's the way it appears.
It's true that there are different meanings of faith.
It seems as though you continue to defend a meaning that nobody here is disputing. The meaning you describe is more akin to believing something. But one can generate any number of objective and verifiable reasons to support all of the things you listed. For example, you said:
"My faith is that people will continue to create and discover more"
You have the evidence of human achievements across thousands of years to support this claim, and therein, objective evidence to back it up. Evidence that can be verified by a third party.
This is not the kind of faith we take issue with.
A claim about a God does not correlate with our experience of reality, and it is indistinguishable from a comforting lie. When someone says they have faith in God's existence, they are committing themselves to believing something without having any basis for the belief whatsoever. It's the epitome of a blind and baseless assumption supported by circular reasoning and kept alive by self delusion and arrogance.
In short, your usage of the word faith, and the context in which you are applying it, is creating disagreement. There are perhaps more accurate words to describe the sentiment you are trying to convey. At least, that's the way it appears.
