Faith in what, exactly, my good sir?
Let me make myself perfectly clear. Please do not stoop so low as to confuse misrepresentation with disdain.
Faith can take many forms. You can have faith that things are going to work out right. You can have faith in a karmic sense of retribution and reward, or you can be tricked into believing, like in the case of a placebo. Thoughts are very, very powerful, and it doesn’t take a religious God to activate a strongly held belief. It seems to manifest on its own.
This is what I mean when I said you're playing semantic games.
You've replaced magical make-believe invisible man in the sky, with happy-go-lucky unicorn farts and labeled it a "strongly held belief".
To me, it just sounds like your "faith" is an excuse for you to not act in your own best interest. You'll sit around, probably until someone else willing to act forces you to react, because of your "faith".
This is my problem with faith. It's espoused by a group of people kicking the can of action down the road, hopium driven that someone else will save them.
I feel nothing but pity for your faith.
How do placebos have such high efficacy in many cases? How come people who have lost the will to live succumb to cancer at much higher rates than those who are optimistic?
Your mental state affects your whole life.
Faith is when you have not seen yet still believe.
No, it's not. Faith is when you've given up on taking your destiny into your own hands and are now hands off the wheel expecting the car to stay in the lane.
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