| </span><blockquote><span class="smallfont">Quote:</span><hr size="1" />Originally Posted by (Suburbanite,)
Everyone has a religion, be it Christianity, Money, or Atheism. You have to have faith; it is what human beings rely on. Some people, many people, have their faith in reason... but I think others know better.<hr size="1" /></blockquote><span class='postcolor'>
Agreed. Mine is agnosticism.
Now, we may all have preferences. I'd prefer there were a God, afterlife, and so on. But our preferences don't make the universe. Of course, maybe our preferences were put there by Something ... ;-)
Fairh? Actually, that should be distinguished from belief, in that it also involves trust. I joke about not having enough faith to be other than agnostic, but it's actually that I don't have enough belief. Faith is a separable aspect of our relationship to the universe, and we may have more or less of it, quite apart from our beliefs. I at least have faith that the universe is neutral to worst to benign at best -- that it is not malign. Well, I could be wrong; but if so, I figure I'm better off not knowing. |