2007-10-24 07:22:03 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Faith is blind as a bat! And it gives people a false sense of purpose, and backing from a god that doesn't exist.
2007-10-24 08:29:48 · answer #1 · answered by Zay Bones 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Depends on what you have faith in, and how you define faith.
It seems as if you have faith in yourself, and aren't you wishful that the qualities and attributes that have carried you through life so far will continue to do so? Or do you have faith that they will?
It also seems that you wish that the way you think is the right way, and that the many who proclaim faith are all wrong.
Faith is a little more complicated than accusing others of something that you yourself are equally guilty of.
But you should know by now, my comments are not designed to offend, but to make you think. I believe (that is faith too) that you have it in you. I mean, isn't that why you are here at YA in the first place?
2007-10-24 15:04:03 · answer #2 · answered by Tony Tiger 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No faith is not like wishful thinking. Faith is knowing and wishful thinking is just hoping.
2007-10-24 20:36:53 · answer #3 · answered by Angelica1951 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wishful thinking is hoping that something is a certain way. Faith is believing that something is a certain way.
For example, wishfully hoping that Michael Bay will spontaneously combust (much like many of the props in Michael Bay movies) is not the same as believing that this will actually happen.
2007-10-24 14:37:13 · answer #4 · answered by short round 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, except part of that "faith" is that you insist that it's NOT just wishful thinking. It's basically a flat denial of the facts when it needs to be.
As if in confirmation, I read: "Faith is being sure of what you hope for and certain of what you do not see."
Which is pretty close to Paul's "the evidence of things not seen" and Mark Twain's "belief in what ain't true."
Faith is belief in ridiculous things in spite of their ridiculousness. Otherwise, if those things were NOT ridiculous, what would be the point of faith? If you could accept the Resurrection, e.g., as a reasonable proposition, then you wouldn't have to have "faith" in it.
And of course the thumbs down begin, even though I'm not saying anything at all contrary to the orthodox party line. Think about it, people. If you could explain a miracle in ordinary terms, it wouldn't be a miracle. It's the very absurdity of it that makes it miraculous. So with every article of faith.
2007-10-24 14:27:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I have faith that the bridge I drive over to and from work, won't collapse.
I didn't see it built, I don't know if the material is up to engineering code, or if the engineers and construction workers weren't impaired or negligent during the process.
I haven't measured it, or reverse engineered it, to prove it's worthiness.
Is it wishful thinking when I drive over it? I think it's deeper than that. There's an element of confidence, based on observation, probability, and trust.
Wishes don't necessarily imply any of that.
2007-10-24 14:30:20 · answer #6 · answered by David F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
wishful thinking is not just hoping as some have said. It is "the formation of beliefs to what might be pleasing to imagine instead of by appealing to evidence or rationality." This combined with intuition is exactly what faith is. Being certain of something you feel is true.
2007-10-24 14:30:09 · answer #7 · answered by Eleventy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if it were I would be dead now I wished I had died but believed I would live " I am typing to you so I guess my faith won over wishful thinking"
I am a heart patient from the time I was born with 20% of living through each operation on my heart!
2007-10-24 14:29:20 · answer #8 · answered by villhelm 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Without faith our lives will be useless. We live by faith.
You need faith just to walk down the street without being mugged.
You will need to have faith in the pilot of a plane before boarding...yes?
2007-10-24 14:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by gnostic 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes and it's one of the most important characteristics humans posses.
When times are rough and there is no hope in sight, having faith that life will improve gives us strength to make it. It's very human for us to see a way, where there is no way in sight. This is how we continue as a species when life seems impossible. Talk to concentration camp survivors or prisoners of war. They can't give up, they have to believe that they will survive.
Pantheist
2007-10-24 14:36:04 · answer #10 · answered by Equinoxical ™ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No. Having faith is based on what you know to be the truth, even if you can't see it.
Hebrews 11:1 (New International Version)
1Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
Wishful thinking is just that-wishing.
2007-10-24 14:27:27 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋