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Humans cannot escape faith, really. It would be a faith to believe that there is nothing beyond our tangible senses. It would be faith to beleive that human reason is the highest power. It would be faith to think that secular ethics were the best for humanity. We believe things about our world...it seems to be the most basic human impulse, and a folly to try to rid ourselves of it.
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I have found the question of faith to be moot for me. To question whether God exists or not is a matter of one absurd scenario or another. In any event, I don't not know why I exist, and I was born without essence - that is, I started as nothing and have come into being.
To view faith as a reciprocating trust relationship makes sense when dealing with people. To have no faith in people leaves on solitary and bitter. Of course, having faith in people can leave one gullible and exploited.
We make choices about what we have faith in, this is true. And, when it comes to metaphors, all abstract thinking is metaphorical. There is always a distance created because of this. And the larger and more externalized this is, the more difficult it is for me to conceptually handle. I start with faith in myself, beyond this, it is very difficult to go farther without feeling that I'm asking too much and wanting answers that do not exist.
I think the essence of faith is to create a metaphorical link towards a feeling of belonging - to something. The inherent value of what one has faith in lies in how one came to have faith. Not why... but how. And then finally, how that manifests in everyday life. For without action, meaning is left lacking.