(November 2, 2017 at 8:59 am)Captain_Nemo Wrote:(November 2, 2017 at 8:51 am)Cyberman Wrote: Faith = reasonable expectation is not equivalent to faith = blind hope. Especially where such hope is completely without justification.
So there is a kind of faith that is reasonable and how do You determine if a user of a religious system is using the word in the right way?
Is it not like making the assumption that You can read my mind when You imply that I am using the word faith in the "blind hope" meaning? This is a presupposition too - in my opinion its much more absurd to believe that You know that I believe in fairies than for me to use a word (GOD) in my active vocabulary in a way that makes sense according to the rules of logic.
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Now we have a milestone.
It turns out, that You could potentially build senteces with the word God in it that are perfectly fine if it comes to logic and making sense.
Agree?
Because faith in a religious context about things that there is no evidence for is by definition blind faith.
"The last superstition of the human mind is the superstition that religion in itself is a good thing." - Samuel Porter Putnam
