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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Don't they have faith that the cars will stop at red lights and stop signs? That trains will stop at the platform and not just skip a stop? That when you press the elevator button it will actually stop on the floor number you pressed?
I think that there is lots of faith every day by everyone.
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I'm not sure. This hones in on what I was thinking. What is that faith? I think saying faith = belief (when not talking about religion) is way oversimplified and maybe not true. I don't think that we have faith that cars will stop and the sun will rise; I these are merely expectations based on experience, science, logic, whatever. It doesn't mean we have faith in the car or the driver, or the sun. Maybe a better definition for faith would be expectation? If so, maybe the wrong phrase was coined or did it just evolve out of those with religious faith?
Or could the difference between faith relating to God and "having faith" in others be that with God, there are no expectations allowed, but as mortals we may have expectations of others and mother nature in a more logical, mathematical sense?