(March 17, 2014 at 5:58 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: If atheism is a faith bald is a hair colour.
True but whether we have faith in anything is a different question than whether atheism is a kind of faith. (Of course it isn't.)
But atheists as people have faith in a great number of things. We have faith in the love of our loved ones. We have faith in the reasonableness and therefore good intentions of others (though that faith regularly gets sorely tested). Most especially we have faith in our insights and talents. We have no proof of their value, but they're ours so we put them forward anyway. Or do we think faith can only have to do with god-belief?