Faithism is the claim to command absolutes
by objectifying the domain of trust.
Faithism is estranged from both doubt and love,
because it cannot allow dissent from its absolutes
and so cannot embrace alternative beliefs.
Faithism therefore leads to violence to defend its
absolute beliefs against competitors, misconstrued.
Faithism is an acquisitive faith that cannot have
what it craves most of all, for things to be other than
the way they are.
Faithism fears the one thing it cannot acquire,
The Unknown, that remains forever unattainable.
Faithism grieves from an addiction of the spirit
to self-indulgent belief that takes contradictions
too personally and its absolutes too seriously.
Faithism is a spiritual virus that confines itself
not to the religious but can infect the practice
of any belief system.
