is it virtuous to have faith in george bush?

Question

is it virtuous to have faith in big businesses?
is it virtuous to have faith in car salesmen?
should faith be a virtue? or should the search for truth?

Answer 1

Faith is not a virtue, it is an evil; indeed, it is the ultimate evil: it is the belief in something without evidence, or in the face of contrary evidence. As such, it is not logical. Since the abiity to use logic is the defining characteristic of the human species, to abjure that ability is to reduce oneself to an animal. The search for truth is virtue.

Answer 2

No we should not have faith in George Bush. No on the second question, no on the third, I'm not sure if faith should be a virtue, faith shouldn't be the search for the truth. However, you should search for the truth.

Answer 3

I have faith in the fact that I believe he thinks he is doing what is right for this country, that doesn't make me virtuous though nor does someone not believing in him make them unrighteous. I don't have any where near the faith in him that I do God or Jesus.

George Bush is just a man so nobody should put their complete faith in an imperfect person.

Answer 4

GW: yes, he's going to take care of us if we let him

Big business: you can have faith that they have a profit motive

Car Salesmen: trust, but don't sign anything.

Faith is a virtue, and everyone has a seed. Any education you get in life, in school, by experiencing new things, traveling, talking to people, etc. serves to strengthen your faith in something. Reading the Bible serves to strengthen your understanding (and faith) in the Bible's religions, provided you can stear clear of some of the stupidity that comes from the man-made portions of those religions.

Answer 5

Sometimes I feel why do we try so hard, to just have a mellow after life..then again, i wonder if it gets much harder life after death. I can't think too much about it makes my head dizzy...
I have very little faith in virtue and human, so if I sold you bottled tap water would that be virtuous?

Answer 6

Only when the lamp of search, of earnest striving, of longing desire, of passionate devotion, of fervid love, of rapture, and ecstasy, is kindled within the seeker's heart, and the breeze of His loving-kindness is wafted upon his soul, will the darkness of error be dispelled, the mists of doubts and misgivings be dissipated, and the lights of knowledge and certitude envelop his being. At that hour will the Mystic Herald, bearing the joyful tidings of the Spirit, shine forth from the City of God resplendent as the morn, and, through the trumpet-blast of knowledge, will awaken the heart, the soul, and the spirit from the slumber of heedlessness. Then will the manifold favors and outpouring grace of the holy and everlasting Spirit confer such new life upon the seeker that he will find himself endowed with a new eye, a new ear, a new heart, and a new mind. He will contemplate the manifest signs of the universe, and will penetrate the hidden mysteries of the soul. Gazing with the eye of God, he will perceive within every atom a door that leadeth him to the stations of absolute certitude. He will discover in all things the mysteries of Divine Revelation, and the evidences of an everlasting Manifestation.

I swear by God! Were he that treadeth the path of guidance and seeketh to scale the heights of righteousness to attain unto this glorious and exalted station, he would inhale, at a distance of a thousand leagues, the fragrance of God, and would perceive the resplendent morn of a Divine guidance rising above the Day Spring of all things. Each and every thing, however small, would be to him a revelation, leading him to his Beloved, the Object of his quest. So great shall be the discernment of this seeker that he will discriminate between truth and falsehood, even as he doth distinguish the sun from shadow. If in the uttermost corners of the East the sweet savors of God be wafted, he will assuredly recognize and inhale their fragrance, even though he be dwelling in the uttermost ends of the West. He will, likewise, clearly distinguish all the signs of God -- His wondrous utterances, His great works, and mighty deeds -- from the doings, the words and ways of men, even as the jeweler who knoweth the gem from the stone, or the man who distinguisheth the spring from autumn, and heat from cold. When the channel of the human soul is cleansed of all worldly and impeding attachments, it will unfailingly perceive the breath of the Beloved across immeasurable distances, and will, led by its perfume, attain and enter the City of Certitude.

(Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 267)

Answer 7

All World Governments have given themselves the right to lie and deceive their people. Put faith in the fact that you're going to get fleeced.

Answer 8

Keep searching! Put no faith into man.

Answer 9

it is virtuous to have faith that Bush is the antichrist and has to be stopped

Answer 10

My vote is for "search for the truth".