[Zinkovich]

I do not believe in faith because faith leads to implied experience, and thus makes you deprive yourself of honesty in your intellectual journey.

To believe in something you had not experienced through personalized, synthetic words of basic semantical reinterpretation of historical or scientific fact or coincidence is not to accept experience, but to deny it of its true base observable nature. When a man mentions that he dug up a dinosaur fossil in Africa with indications that it has feathers, we should look at the fossil based on what it is and not to define it by what it implicates through our implied experiences.

To give an example of implied experience, the ability of faith to heal ro move mountains is one of those within the Bible. By reading the Bible with serious acceptance, the Christian begins to believe in the possibility of healing through the implication of hrealing being personally experienced by someone he never met, and never established a previous trust towards. And then there is, of course, the most implied expeirence of all, the creation-or rather, the implication of a start to our game as the reason for our existence, and thus the existence of our reason. It is ridiculous in its lack of basis on true observation.

Thus we lead even further into the fabrication of people or objects rather than experience as carriers of the articles of faith. We do not know if they exist, and yet we base our lives and future itnerpretation of our lvies around them? Such a thing is not right, and robs the believer of true expeirence for himself.

Faith is a denial of our own ability to discern and experience a small part of the whole. I detest faith because it leads ot dishonesty ot the self and thus unintentional dishonesty towards others. I am sorry if my stance offends, but there it is in full color.