I just read a book from Peter Bohossian, and he discusses the importance of nailing down the definition of "Faith" as "Pretending to know things you don't know". When you plug that in to commonly heard statements from Christians, it really captures the absurdity of faith claims:
Without faith, my life has not meaning.
TRANSLATION: Without pretending to know things I don't know, my life has no meaning.
Alice is having a crisis of faith.
TRANSLATION: Alice is having a crisis of pretending to know things she does not know.
Alternatively, she's just been struck by the fact that she's been pretending to know things she does not know.
INTERVENTION!!!!
Without faith, my life has not meaning.
TRANSLATION: Without pretending to know things I don't know, my life has no meaning.
Alice is having a crisis of faith.
TRANSLATION: Alice is having a crisis of pretending to know things she does not know.
Alternatively, she's just been struck by the fact that she's been pretending to know things she does not know.
INTERVENTION!!!!
