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"Faith" is believing in something where there is no probative evidence either supporting or refuting the proposition. As a child, I didn't have faith, in this sense, because I simply accepted, as literally true, what I was taught by my parents and in church. Now that I have some higher education and decades of life experience under my belt, I find myself "having" to believe. I think we all do that. The "having" or faith part comes first, and the higher meaning ascribed to actions and events is a corollary. Buddhism probably is the closest thing to an exception to that rule, but there's the reincarnation thing (accepting, on faith, that the death/rebirth cycle is a bad thing and needs to be snuffed out by one's enlightenment).
You started this thing, Martian...what's your view on the issue?
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