(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.
Having faith has more to do with no knowing something for sure or not having much basis for believing something to be true—the minute you have some basis to believe in something but yet don’t have proof, it’s still not faith but belief.
Faith is really the opposite site of the spectrum of knowing something by evidence. There are many positions in between these two positions (fact based on empirical evidence and faith).
Having faith should be the last resort when all other possibilities have exhausted.