Reply #211: Of course it is. [View All]

...although I believe it would be better to say "faith is the act of jumping to a conclusion knowing that it may not yet make logical sense".

Simply because sometimes in our lives we all have a little "faith" in something. After all, every unique invention ever made started out with a little "faith". It started with a "faith that something that is not yet possible will become possible through trial and error".

As long as folks can acknowledge the fact that it *IS* faith and *NOT* fact then I think we're doing okay. Once people begin to confuse faith with facts then the water gets murky.

We have to keep in mind that even though what they believe may seem silly to us and illogical, something that perhaps should have been abandoned long ago, they believe it fully and completely. At least in most cases. We must strive not to become what we hate most, as it is always a constant danger I have found. In particular in matters just like this. We hate it when a person of faith looks down their nose at us and preaches to us or calls us "sinners". I am sure it feels no different when we insult those of faith by insulting their deity (or deities) with cutsy names like "sky daddy" and insulting their intelligence.

Really, if it bothers any of us so much we should just think of it as their freedom to be wrong while looking silly. Still, we should have enough common courtesy not to insult them, especially not to their face, when other than for a few things we all should be friends. We should be better than that, even if we are insulted we should take a certain amount of pride in being able to rise above those with such self-righteous indignation. After all they are the ones running around looking like the fool, not us.