Faith.How come the only thing in the existence o f humankind that requires faith is religous stuff itsallabun?

Answer 1

What did I tell you long ago Brusnickadee - if that real is your name - they come up with the same horse *#%@ answers every time. Go someplace else like anthropology if you want to have answers to real questions. Religion and Spirituality section should just merge with the Folklore and Mythology section. That would be a marriage of reality not of convenience. Peace

P.S. Right on Scott B -- Don't let the Bastards Get You Down!!!!!!

Answer 2

Unfortunately, that's not true at all. Science can say that something will work some way, but it takes a leap of faith to go from the theoretical to the practical, and it doesn't always work.

The Takoma Narrows bridge was designed by engineers, and the users of that bridge had faith that it was a well-designed bridge. However, when the wind started blowing through it, and it started vibrating with standing waves, and basically shook itself to destruction, people found that the faith in science and engineering at that point was misplaced.

Faith is trusting that something is as advertised. Even in science and engineering, when we think we've a well thought out foolproof plan, it isn't necessarily so.

You probably have faith that when you get in your car and turn the key, that it will start. You probably have faith that you are safe whilst driving down the road. Are you really?

Remember that nuclear theory is a theory. We have faith that it will work; such faith that we are afraid of the bombs. It is all still theory.

Living life requires faith. It's not all faith in a supreme being. We have faith in others. That's where we get the turm "unfaithful"; when people demonstrate that they aren't worthy of that faith.

No, it's not all in religion.

To those ignorant of the English langauge. Only one definition of faith is "belief that does not rest on logical proof". There are many other definitions of faith, and the previous one is not the first.

Faith is trust that something is the way that one believes it to be.

I've seen cars fail. I've seen chairs fail. It takes faith that a particular chair is built correctly. It takes faith to go to your car leaving no spare time to fix a potential flat or to fnd an alternate route in case of an accident. We are ALL creatures of faith, because we know that things may fail, yet we trust them not to.

So please don't give us that crap that faith is only in things unproved. That's a statement not even supported by half-way decent dictionary.

Answer 3

Who says it's the only thing? Prove to me that the world exists and we aren't the figments of someone else's imagination. Please, do not use sensory perceptions. If the world is an illusion, then that would be begging the question. If we are a product of another person's mind, then our thoughts are no more real than those of the bots in the games I play, and thus, you can't use the old "cogito ergo sum."

Now, when you can do this, then your question *might* have a reasonable base. Until then, though, it seems rather poorly thought out.

EDIT:

In response to the fellow after me, "faith" doesn't mean "belief in the absence of evidence." That's a very narrow and fideistic definition. We translate the word for "trust" in other languages as "faith" in our own. When we hold someone in "good faith," we "trust" them, and this is often done as evidence. The Greek "pistis," "faith" most literally means "trust." The Latin "credo," "I believe" means "I trust." All human knowledge begins with "trust." We cannot otherwise know anything.

Answer 4

Apprarently theists have no idea what the definition of faith is.

FAITH: Is a belief that is not supported by evidence.

Trusting that your car will start, your chair will hold you, or that you will wake up the next morning is NOT faith. Your car and chair have functioned properly everyday before today, so there is significant REASON and evidence to believe it will continue to work. Depending on your health you can safely REASON the likely hood of waking up the following morning in contrast to an elderly individual.

God on the other hand is a belief entirely without evidence and without logical reason for belief.

Religion and belief in god is FAITH.

Answer 5

Because everything else has decent evidence.

If religion was anything more than a superstition, and had real evidence to back it up, they wouldn't push the virtue of "faith" so much.

Some would say, "Even sitting in a chair requires faith", and that's true to a trivial extent. However, there's plenty of evidence available that chairs generally are sufficient to hold a person's weight. The difference is that religions promote faith while we try to minimize our reliance on it in the rest of what we do. There is always some uncertainty in whether the chair will hold us, but the less uncertainty the better.

Answer 6

When you were a baby can you ever remember wondering where that bottle was gonna come from? No you just knew it would come. When you cried did you not know that your mother would comfort you? You knew in that tiny baby brain that things would be taken care of without a doubt. That my friend is faith and not in a religious sense, it is the same faith we should have in the Lord.

Answer 7

"Why did you sit in that computer chair without thinking about whether or not it will hold you? Faith. It has to do with trust, and you exercise it every single day."


No sir Schneb, I know of this thing called gravity and that it will keep me in this chair unless I wish to defy it and move. Or did you mean that the chair won't break? I am hoping it won't by the way it was created. I do put blind uneducated entirely ignorant faith in that it won't break because it's a chair and it's what it supposed to do. If that's what you meant?

Answer 8

What about love? What about trust? What about going to bed each night believing that you're going to wake up the next morning? All of those sound like they require faith to me....

Answer 9

Are you faithful to your loved ones? Should we have faith in our leaders? Is there any faith left in the upholding of the US Constitution?
Yes, and some of us have faith that our prayers will be answered.
btw It's not a bad thing.

Answer 10

Because it's all nonsense, and if people stopped believing then hundreds of thousands of frauds and hucksters currently employed by the Churches and various ministries would have to find real jobs.

"Would you like to Biggie Size that?"