(September 10, 2020 at 7:54 pm)rockyrockford Wrote: If "faith" is defined as "complete trust or confidence in someone or something".(dictionary.com) As an atheist, do you have complete confidence or trust in anything? or anyone? If so, what is the foundation for that "complete" faith.
I'm not looking for an argument, so you don't have to be guarded. I'm simply wanting to learn more about your belief, or absence of belief.
Probably we all have faith in the consistency of nature. Like, I don't have any worries that the law of gravity is going to reverse itself. I know, intellectually, that it might. We have no absolute proof that it will be consistent. But nobody goes around bolting down his furniture in case it happens.
Then on a lesser scale I have faith that certain things will happen among people, based on experience. The US government will continue to be mostly terrible for the foreseeable future, stuff like that. This is not to say that change is impossible or the current state is eternal -- just that for now we can trust that it will go on as usual.