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Thread #132816   Message #3011189
Posted By: Jack the Sailor
19-Oct-10 - 10:07 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Faith is the confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, concept or thing.http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/faith The English word is thought to date from 1200�50, from the Latin fidem or fidēs, meaning trust, derived from the verb fīdere, to trust.

I have faith in Jesus as a guide. His advice is sound and puts me in good stead. I have faith in the 23rd psalm. It comforts me. I have faith in prayer. It calms me and allows me to remove fear and ego from the task at hand. I have faith in Christianity because, for me, it works.

I believe that there is more evidence that there is something that people call a deity than not. But I do not have a narrow definition of what that is. Joesph Campbell thought it was human racial memory, psychology and Myths. My wife believes it is the spark of divinity in all things. C.S. Lewis and billions of others call it God of Allah. Hawking calls it the laws of physics and mathematics. I think from each of their points of view they are all correct. The Hindu fable of the blind men and the elephant is very illuminating.