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Originally Posted by Rasczak Which is putting faith in your understanding of things and/or ability to choose right?
You can't really separate faith from anything we do or believe, religious or otherwise. |
If you really want to get down to it, this is true - when I pick up the coffee cup, I am having 'faith' that it isn't a hallucination and my hand won't go right through it, and when I drive through a green light, I'm having 'faith' that drivers on the corresponding red lights will stop rather than plough right into me. But I have evidence in both those cases to support my belief. To my mind that is what makes something faith - the lack of evidence (and anecdotal or dogmatic 'evidence' be it from a pulpit or elsewhere is not really evidence). We have to draw our own lines as to what is real, and if you choose to fully believe in something without any real evidence is a different thing to rationalizing it out. Of course there are layers upon layers upon layers to our beliefs too, each belief based on other pre-determined belief - we have to do this so we don't spend life considering every aspect of every decision over and over, so it just becomes subconsciously 'filed' as established fact (e.g. I can rely on the 'fact' that the coffee cup is real so it's ok to put it in the coffee maker and fill it with coffee - maybe a boring example but it's early and it will suffice).