(January 16, 2015 at 10:10 pm)professor Wrote: I had to come back to this one to see where it ended up since this afternoon.
Esq, your definition of faith (believing in spite of evidence) is apparently unique to you guys.
Drich gave you the correct definitions, yet you come up with one that doesn't exist.
Faith is having belief or confidence in something. PERIOD
That includes Atheists.
You have faith in your car.
If that faith was in spite of evidence- you would would be looking for a reliable one to replace it.
I got rid of the lying clunker that the System foisted on me a long time ago.
The purveyors of evolution make the proverbial used car salesmen look like Mother Teresa.
But then again, the only alternative to creation is this stupid theory of evolution.
So people have to live with it and it gets shoved down everybody's throat until some of us look around at reality and vomit it out like the puke that it is.
no.....no that is not what faith is, unless of course, you wish to make up definitions to go along with your made up.....religion.
Faith - the belief in something without evidence.
Delusion: an idiosyncratic belief or impression that is firmly maintained despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality or rational argument, typically a symptom of mental disorder. A belief held with strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary.
Religion - The embracement of delusion.
now, the christian courses I took while getting my degree in religious studies liked to spruce it up by saying, "it is the belief in the unseen, unknown, transcendental world beyond man's physical one"....i.e....belief in something without evidence.
You, not a mythical god, are the author of your book of life, make it one worth reading..and living.