(March 20, 2014 at 7:29 pm)Hezekiah Wrote: My greatest fear is that general belief is a trap. That the person urns to trust his surronding or cling on to something, and truthfully there is nothing to cling to. That because there are bad beliefs, belief might be tainted. And anything tainted is imperfect, not reliable, or trustworthy. In other words, belief being a trap that has swallowed humanity for countless centuries.
(March 20, 2014 at 7:28 pm)Chuck Wrote: You seem to slipperily lump you notion of religious faith with proposition built up from evidence and embraced accordingly together as "Belief". Is it intentional?
Unintentional. My definition of belief is simple trust. My definition of faith is believing/trusting something that has no evidence. I may be walking a fine line between skepticism here.
Once you adopted a trust without grounding in comprehensively assessed evidence, perhaps out of some perception of private convenience or advantage, do you untrust yourself when confronted with contrary evidence?
If you do, then the belief is not a trap. If you don't, then it is a trap.
Faith is a trap. Belief is not necessarily a trap.
