Faith, religious faith, is something like belief despite the lack of evidence. If there was enough evidence to reasonably believe in God, there would be no need for faith, or a leap of faith or whatever kids are saying these days...
Faith, as in 'trust', is based on observation. I trust that when I sit on a chair, I won't phase through it and fall to the center of the earth, because I have sat on chairs thousands of times and it hasn't happened before. Also, such phasing, without any amazing gadgets, is almost scientifically impossible. This "faith", which should really just be called trust, is evidence based.
So why do some religious people claim the two types of "faith" are the same? Why claim an atheist has "faith", when you damn well know they have nothing remotely like religious faith!?
(Note that if you claim they have something like "religious faith" explain how your answer satisfies my definition of religious faith above.)
2006-12-13
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