a question of faith...

I have placed it here to point out the difference between faith
and philosophy…to be blunt, faith is one already knowing the answer…
philosophy is one seeking the answer…which means many here are not,
not philosophers because they believe that they have the answers as given
by ideology or belief… they need not seek because they already hold what
answers they need…whereas philosophers seek because they don’t have answers…
philosophers have questions, faith has answers…

as this holds true philosophically, it also holds true politically…
as a liberal, I hold to certain values, for example that justice is a value worth
living for and a value worth dying for…but is justice an absolute value?
a value that was true yesterday, true today and will be true tomorrow?
I cannot know that… I do not have faith that what I understand to be justice
is going to remain the same tomorrow…I can only know that for today anyway,
justice is a value worth engaging with…

I cannot expect today’s answers to meet tomorrow questions…
which is one way of saying, today’s truths are ‘‘ad hoc’’ truths
designed to meet today’s needs, temporary, fleeting needs of the
moment… or to say another way, I lack faith…and so I seek…

too many around hold faith, which is to say they have answers,
and not enough seek, because they lack faith…

Kropotkin

Faith is an unsupported belief.

You have faith that a wooden chair with 4 legs will not collapse to the floor when you sit in it, but you don’t know that to be true.

Murphy loves it when someone thinks their faith is the truth. He sneaks up on them and rains on their parade.

Many people have lost their lives because they have faith, and their faith turned out to be false.

Motor Daddy: Faith is an unsupported belief.
Many people have lost their lives because they have faith, and their faith turned out to be false."

K: I wasn’t quite getting to this point, but ok, lets go there…
notice that the Covid rate is much higher in the red/religious states
as oppose to the blue/secular states… it seems, although unproven
at the moment, that those who are religious seem to avoid Covid Shots
whereas those who are less religious/blue states seem to get Covid shots…
and thus the death rate and Covid rate is much lower in Blue states…
those with faith, answers are getting sick at a greater rate then those
without faith…their “certainty” is causing them to become sick and in some cases, die…

Kropotkin

perhaps we might say this:

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum

and leave faith here…

Kropotkin

for it is faith that allows one to hold onto beliefs, theories… conspiracy and other
such theories… for example it takes faith for one to hold onto a conspiracy theory
such as this insane one, that Fauci somehow started and funded the wuhan
lab where Covid began… that faith is no different then the faith it takes
to hold onto the belief that jesus is a god and our savior… and that the bible
is the literal truth…to do so requires one to hold onto inconsistencies,
disputed facts (for example in Joshua 10…“So the sun stood still and the moon
stopped, till the nation avenged itself”) and “Truths” that defy logic and reason…
but that is the point of faith… to dismiss logic and reason…to hold onto
“evidence” that can’t possible be true…to raise Lazarus from the dead…
or to be “reborn” after three days as Jesus is supposed to be… how much
different are these faith base beliefs any different then faith base theories
that IQ45 won the 2020 election or that somehow the election was stolen?

the faith to hold onto false beliefs is strong…it is easier, I hold, to
hold onto faith base theories then it is to challenge one’s beliefs…
to attack one faith base theories… in Nietzsche words, to reevaluate values…
to overcome our childhood indoctrinations… which is just another word for
faith…

Kropotkin

A person that has faith genuinely believes, it’s not like they know it’s untrue. That is not faith knowing something is false, but continuing to claim it’s true, that is a known lie!

Faith is a genuine belief, not a lie. They actually believe it to be true, it’s just to them they don’t have any supporting facts to back up their belief, so it is taken on faith.

Belief in God is a good example of faith. A person can believe in God without having supporting facts to back up their belief. They simply believe in something that they don’t have the supporting facts. That is what faith is.

Someone that knows the truth, but says different for some agenda they have is simply lying, they do not have faith. Real faith is an actual unsupported belief. They really do believe.