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How Strong is Your Faith?
Posted: 19 years ago - May 13, 2007A number of people have tried to convince me that I have "faith" in atheism. It's the same thing as faith in religion? Seriously? You think that? Faith is based on something that you can't prove. I can explain Newton's first three laws. The are observable, testable and reproducible. That's is not faith.
I found a great quote that I'd like to share:
Faith is the greatest sin of religion. I despise it; I'm particularly appalled that it is so universally regarded as a virtue. Listen, if I ever call someone a "person of faith", you should be aware that I have just insulted them terribly. It's astonishing how easily that sails over people's heads, though.
Faith is this amazing idea that it is a good thing to hold incredible beliefs in the complete absence of evidence to support them; the more outrageous the belief and the weaker the logic behind them, the stronger your faith and the more virtuous your conduct. It short-circuits everything that works in the world and puts ignorance on a pedestal.
Faith is the opposite of science, yet it is also one common element that you will always hear valued in religion. It is the number one most common excuse for holding peculiar superstitious beliefs in spite of the evidence against them, their violations of sense, and their foundation in wishful thinking and rhetorical vapor—it's the one word non-answer to every criticism of religion. Faith. You might as well just say "gullibility" or "ignorance" or "delusion"— it's all the same thing.
Faith = Ignorance
Yes, that works nicely, thank you.