Do you have a Faith? [Spirituality & Religion]
Did you always have it? Do you have it of your own volition, or was it thrust upon you?
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hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
Valentine · M
@hippyjoe1955 Interesting. Some would say an atheist has no faith. Are you willing to expand please? Thank you.
hippyjoe1955 · 70-79, M
@Valentine The mistake is the idea the 'faith' equals a belief in a god. This is absolutely not true. Faith is what you believe. If you believe there is no god then that is every bit as much a statement of faith as some guy on the street corner proclaiming the immanent return of Jesus Christ. Neither of them have any proof it is simply what they believe. I am a Christian. Everywhere I look I see evidence of design. I look at anything from the placement of the planets in their orbits to the complexity of a single cell and see that as a former process design engineer that what I see must be the product of design. However an atheist can look at the same evidence and come to exactly the opposite conclusion. The evidence I saw led me to become a Christian. The same evidence to an atheist is not counted as evidence and so they remain in their faith known as atheism. I have had a number of very intelligent and very well educated people who became Christian because they didn't have enough faith in the atheist mythology to remain an atheist.
Valentine · M
@hippyjoe1955 Thank you.