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A pretty damn good definition of faith
Posted on: December 2, 2007 - 6:57pm
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A pretty damn good definition of faith
Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. -- Ambrose Bierce
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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Good definition, as is Mark Twain's "Believing in that which I know ain't so."
Alright alright, I got one too from some author.
"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible." William James
I love it hamby, love it.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1914(?)
, Makes me think of our RRS friend NERO
, where is he anyway ?
, got a soft spot for that satirist teddy bear ....
hey nero , really miss yur ugly ass .....
Atheism Books.
rational faith: confidence in proportion to the known evidence for a belief.
irrational faith, blind faith, dishonest faith: confidence in disregard for the known evidence for a belief.
Irrational faith is obtained by techniques of self-hypnosis or self-brainwashing usually by lying to yourself and others repeatedly until you generate dishonest confidence.
Making statement with disregard for the evidence is lying. Factual statements made in disregard for the know facts are lies. The fact that in the future evidence may become known does not justify making factual statements that contradict the known facts, even if evidence is discovered in the future that overwhelmingly supports those previously unsupported statements, it would not justify them.
Irrational faith is the root of all evil. Irrational faith was the method by which the Nazis were able to believe that it was good to send Jews and others to concentration camps where ten million died. Irrational faith was the method by which the Stalinists and Maoists and Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge were able to believe that it was good to send dissenters and potential reactionaries to gulags where tens of millions died. Irrational faith was the method that Christians Hutus in Rwanda convinced themselves that it was good to hack to death 100,000 Christian Tutsis with machetes in 1994. Irrational faith was the method by which Christians convinced themselves that it was good to murder by sword and burning alive pagans, heretics, Moslems, witches and Jews. As far as I can determine, every atrocity ever committed by man was based on irrational faith. Almost everyone who commits some antisocial crime first convinces themselves that there is some justification for their crime.
Religious faith is just a species of evil irrational faith. It is not inherently different than the irrational faith used to justify communism or totalitarianism or racism or any other bigotry or rationalization for evil.
when you say "faith" I think "evil lies"
when you say "god" I think "santa clause"
Wow! It's so great that you posted a quote by Ambrose Bierce. I just read some of his stuff the other day. It's painfully obvious that, like Twain, he was a realist that scoffed at woo-woo crap.
Twain tries to make laughs out of reality though. Bierce strikes me as just depressing. =P
A place common to all will be maintained by none. A religion common to all is perhaps not much different.
Mark Twain , even better than Jesus Christ !
as me raised as an atheist looking for religion.
, geezz I can't find one worthy of prayer
, them core Buddhists just ain't religious ??? they meditate, no praying ???
any Ideas ? got a religion worth a shit ?
an atheist looking for religion
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I agree on all counts. That difference in attitude accounts for the disparity in my reading. I've read a LOT of Twain, and very little Bierce. Funny, that.
Atheism isn't a lot like religion at all. Unless by "religion" you mean "not religion". --Ciarin
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