You're gonna have to be a bit more specific on what you're calling a strawman, chief.
You're playing semantic games, as your particular mental disability is oft to do, so lets be very clear.
I thought I made it pretty clear. You are blatantly misrepresenting the subject matter at hand. He is asking about faith and your answers talking about invisible men in the sky and fighting over which stone tablet is correct. Any moderately intelligent person knows that faith/ belief and religion are two different things, and he even made the distinction between God and faith in his initial question.
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.
Faith is when you have not seen yet still believe.
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