What else in life requires having faith other than religion?

Question

Everything else that I can think of has some fundamental and observable basis for its belief. If not for reasoning, more people would still believe that some fat jolly guys plummets down their chimney every winter. So why do fundamental theists still believe the God story with absolutely no evidence?

Answer 1

According to them you need faith to breath, walk and do everything else. I don't even have to come back and look at the answers in 10 minutes at least one of them will say something along this line of 'reasoning'. I guess I just have 'faith' that it will happen. That or I just know how to observe and make an educated guess.

Answer 2

Having faith means that you don't need to have evidence. But there is evidence out there. The Bible is the biggest piece of evidence Christians have. Some may say that its just a book, but if is JUST a book, then why is it still around after almost 2000 years? There has to be a good reason and that, for me, is faith. Science will always be competing with religion, trying to prove that things that were written about were just a scientific phenomenon. But the true believers will keep believing what they have been taught.

Everything requires faith, not just religion. You have faith in your car that it will get you where you need to go. You have faith in your family that they will be there for you and always love you. Your boss has faith in you that you will do a high quality job and get things done that need to be done. A lot of things require faith, whether you realize it or not.

Answer 3

In order to have a functioning society, almost everything requires the extension of trust!

You trust that the grocer who sells you food has not mixed dust or dirt in with it in order to charge more by weight.

You trust the furniture manufacturer that you bought your chair from to have built a reliable piece of merchandise that will not crumble under you the first time you try to sit on it, breaking your leg and driving painful splinters into your body.

You trust that your friend/spouse/neighbor likes you and does not have your harm in mind.

In all these cases, we put faith in the persons involved without ever asking for confirmation, or we extend trust and wait for subsequent events to confirm or contradict the validity of our trust.

To be sure, exceptions to all of these happen, but they are BY FAR the exception, and not the rule... this is why they are called 'exceptions' right...? They PROVE the general applicability of the rule, they do not DISPROVE the general applicability of the rule.

Trust and faith is called for in all areas of life. To live and believe otherwise is to be paranoid and of an unhealthy mind-set.

Maybe particles can get along without faith, but we as humans cannot. Individual particles don't have to worry about being mentally healthy.

If someone you love dies suddenly, do you say to yourself, "Oh well, there is still the same number of PARTICLES there"...? No, of course not. We know that there is something to us which is inexplicable in terms of physics, but it is none the less real and valid and precious to us.

If there's nothing but physics, then Hitler and Osama didn't really do anything WRONG.

If all we are is particles, then the guy who stops you in an alley, when you are on the way home from a movie with your wife and son, and takes your wife's necklace, and shoots you and her before the horrified eyes of your child hasn't really done anything BAD. It's just in the eyes of the law, which can be changed by a simple vote.

Here's a question for you: do we have meaning in our lives...? is there any validity for our existence...? The guys that shot up Columbine didn't think so. And they seemed to especially target those who DID think that there was meaning and value to life.

Keep your head down. Don't let anybody know that you think that life is something more than just physics and chemisty. Aftrer all, you don't want to make yourself a target.

I'm being sarcastic, and maybe it isn't called for. What I'm trying to say is, there's more to life that requires faith and trust than religion. I can't read your mind; I don't know your heart like I know my own. When you tell me that you don't believe that anything requires faith, I can't tell if you're lying or not. I have to take your word for it. I have to trust you. I have to exercise faith.

Answer 4

Actually evolution requires more faith than any religion I know of. Evolution is a theory with less to substantiate it than the Bible offers to substantiate itself. As far as faith in evidence elsewhere, how about when you drive down a two-lane highway? Do you believe that the guy coming toward you at 65 miles per hour is going to stay in his lane? If not, why are you still driving?

Answer 5

If you're married, what makes you think your wife won't walk out on you the next time you go to work, or where ever? Many things in life take faith to one degree or another. You have faith that when you get into your car the engine will start and take you where you want to go. Do you truly understand how an engine works, as in the physics of the thing? If you do, you are unusual.

Answer 6

Most everything during the day requires faith. Sitting down in a chair without testing it out first requires faith that it will hold you. Every intersection requires faith that the other driver is stopping at the red light. Every piece of food you eat requires faith that it's not spoiled or tampered with. Without faith we wouldn't get out of bed, unless we first test the floor to make sure it's still solid. And don't get me started about earthquakes.

Answer 7

The God story with absolutely no evidece??? - says person who believes in a fairy tale of big bang theory which falls into domain of highly speculative theorical physics and is unsupported by many known physical principles, plus the observational data of astronomy!!! Knock knock... Hello...nobody home!!! Knock knock!

I think that it takes a lot of faith that one believes that an explosion produced the finely tuned , ordered galaxies, solar systems, moons, planets. Since when did explosions produce mathematically perfect accuracy? The great weekness of the big bang is it simply cannot account for or explain the sheer number of complex consended galaxies and stars within the universe. Explosions throw matter apart; but we are asked to believe that this explosion produced the opposite effect of an explosion and brought matter together in the form of galaxies.

You like to throw the word light year to your questions...that does not have anything to do with time, it is about distance ...unless you have enough faith to believe other way..

Galaxies spin around so fast that we cannot even understand why they do not just fly apart. Super clusters of galaxies are linked together gravitionally in patterns thought to reach half a billion light years.

Evolutionism and its assertions are plentiful, put putting its claims and assumptions under the microscope is seen to be tantamount heresy!! Darwin's own scientific contemporarities considered his work to be full of conjecture and low on hard evidence. So it takes a lot of faith to be Darwin's follower.

I put my faith In Jesus...that is not putting faith on religion!
Jesus loves you!

Answer 8

I believe that there are "aliens" or life on other planets. There is obviously no factual evidence of this so I suppose it could be called faith. I believe it's true based of numbers though. With the trillions of stars and the infinite amount of universe (as far as we know), I don't think it's wrong to assume that there is life somewhere somewhere else in the cosmos. Going by this definition from www.dictionary.com:
"Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence", my belief in "aliens" is based on faith. (Unless you count all the light-years of space that we know of as 'material evidence'.)

I think it's definitely a different type of faith than believing in god though. That type of faith is probably what this definition is for, also from dictionary.com:

"often Faith Christianity. The theological virtue defined as secure belief in God and a trusting acceptance of God's will."

Sorry, I don't know if that answers your question or not.

Answer 9

You believe the order of the universe on faith...the sun will rise, the moon will come up, the stars will shine, the planets will evolve and exist. Without faith, this would still happen.

Answer 10

Everything requires some kind of faith (trust). You sit in a chair and trust it will hold you up. You walk across a street trusting you will reach the other side.