RE: Question about "faith"
September 16, 2020 at 9:50 am
(This post was last modified: September 16, 2020 at 9:54 am by Fake Messiah.)
(September 16, 2020 at 9:40 am)John 6IX Breezy Wrote: Faith is assenting to any proposition, based upon the credit of the proposer. How reasonable faith is depends on how trustworthy the proposer is.
Faith depends on personal tastes and/ or community in which you were raised.
Faith is not an objective thing.
Christians say with faith "Jesus walked on water" while Hindus say “The Dalai Lama reincarnates” Muslims say "Mohammed was the last prophet." These statements are faith claims masquerading as a knowledge claim, a statement of fact.
And, of course, different faith traditions make different truth claims.
Faith cannot adjudicate between competing claims (“Muhammad was the last prophet” versus “Joseph Smith was a prophet”). Faith cannot steer one away from falsehood and toward truth.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"