(September 11, 2020 at 7:59 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(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."complete" is not appropriate. "Faith" should always be conditional. I get on airplanes because I have faith that the engineers generally get things right, after enough tries. If that faith is shown to be unjustified I'll stop flying. This is where religious people fall down. They "keep the faith" without applying critical thinking.
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.
Some rational philosophers call that 'reasonable expectation from experiences'. It's rather a cumbersome term, but it's useful for differentiating between religious faith and the more prosaic sort. When I flip a light switch to 'on', I expect that the bulb will illuminate, because it's happened thousands of times before - that's a reasonable expectation. The religious variety of faith would be a belief that orange marmalade would flow out of the bulb socket when I flipped the switch. Why? Because it's based on belief, because there's no evidence for it, and it runs counter to reason.
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