Absolute certainty is a red herring anyway, there isn't much of anything I think we could honestly say we're 100% absolutely certain about without exception. The conflation that some theists make is between "faith" and "confidence based on data and prior results". If we're still sticking to the chair analogy, Carm has sat in many chairs before and they haven't broken, he knows pretty much (I'd assume) what a chair looks like, he might have even seen someone sit in that specific chair before. All of these contribute to the belief that the chair will hold him (if it matches the previous specifications) or that the chair won't hold him (if the chair does not adequately meet the prior specifications). Even if he is wrong about his conclusion, it sure as hell isn't a belief on "faith".
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson