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I'm glad orphen brought that up, and to wil: While Kierkegaard's 'logic' seems like nothing but cognitive dissonance to us, to someone with absolute faith, it's very noble.
But I'm going to challenge Kierkegaard right here. I'm going to say that to have faith (especially in today's world) is MUCH easier than to not. Look around you to find religion everywhere you go. When you have faith, you are part of a community. Our world's leaders show faith. They fight wars for faith. People get empassioned by it and the mob mentality makes it all too easy for someone to get wrapped up in faith.
Why is faith so popular? Well, this may be more cynicism coming from me, but the atmosphere that humans make for themselves is typically less than agreeable. Many people NEED faith to lift them up from the shit hole that they're in. We don't teach our children skills to overcome obstacles, we teach them faith to dream their way out of it.
So how can I be sure if my girlfriend is cheating on me or not? I can tell you, it's got nothing to do with having faith in her. I know what I know about her and I make a judgement based on that. Trust, to me, is not faith, it's an evaluation. Chance and risk is not faith, it's a surrender to the odds. The difference between all of this is fairly simple. If I trust my girlfriend, but find signs of her cheating on me, I can accept that and show her the door. However, this blind faith that people speak of would have me denying this evidence's very existence.
It's about being truthful with yourself. And like I've said in a previous thread... when it's all said and done, you've lived life as an athiest, but you've done everything in your power to be an awesome human being, and it turns out there really IS a god, is he going to hold it against you that you chose to ask a few questions to educate yourself rather that buy into the same packaged all-inclusive deal that everyone else did?
Last edited by Halx; 08-11-2004 at 10:37 AM..
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