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I think I agree with your statement about most religions, even many Christians and “Christians” have too much of an uncritical, lazy belief.

What does “believing” mean to you? People often assert that the word “faith” is some stupid, blind trust in something. I believe, or have faith, that my car will run today, not because I have some spiritual feeling, but because I understand engineering and it has worked for years. My reasoning says that I should have faith that it will work when I turn the key. I could be wrong, but I’m probably not wrong.

alanajoy 2y ago

You believe your car will turn on not because of faith, but because of evidence based results. Faith is, by definition, belief that doesn’t require proof. 🫶

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Charles 2y ago

If you’ve ever drove a dodge you’d know “past results do not guarantee future results” I had a black dodge named Swan.

alanajoy 2y ago

lol

Charles 2y ago

We understand the world not by evidence but by the quality of our explanations of which evidence is a part.

Jorj X McKie 2y ago

I put ‘belief’ in the same category. It really hit home for me when I had a vax mandate deadline meeting with my lab’s big bosses, and the first thing I heard was the medical director saying “🙏please tell me you still BELIEVE in SCIENCE “.

That inversion blew my mind (and my career).

Mr. Fred Rogers 2y ago

According to what definition of faith? If you look at how the word faith is used in a Biblical sense (like analyzing the word based on context) there’s no implication faith is not evidence based results.

I would argue faith is ~synonymous with trust. Trust can be stupid, based on a house of cards or backed by solid reasoning.

In Christianity, faith is encouraged to be tested. (For instance, Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 says that Christians should be pitied if Christ didn’t raise from the dead. He was arguing for his readers to test the claim, not just do what sounded cool at the time.)