RE: So I am Here with My first Question
June 12, 2019 at 2:44 pm
(This post was last modified: June 12, 2019 at 2:45 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(June 12, 2019 at 2:22 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Faith is such a broad word, seldom sold. I might store faith in many things, family, friends and coworkers.
I don't surely invest that valuable good in fantasies.
That's an important distinction - glad you brought it up.
I've been accused in having faith in many things, but I view religious faith differently than everyday faith. For example, when I flip a light switch in my home, it can be said that I have 'faith' that the lights will go on or off. But this expectation is based on a reasonable statistical universe - I've flipped light switches tens of thousands of times, and the lights virtually always go on or off. I don't expect that raspberry jam will ooze out of the light fixtures, or that our home will be struck by a boulder made of mastodon dung. Religious faith - gods are real, gods pay attention to us, I'm going to heaven when I die - is a little different because theists do NOT base their faith on experience (oddly enough, a lot of them seem proud of this, which puzzles me).
So, I'll go on having reasonable expectations based on experience. If it pleases theists to call this 'faith', I shan't quibble.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson