The Unconditioned Faith


31. March 2004:

woggy3939:

"You have faith that the sun will rise and set. You have faith that tomorrow, you'll wake up to face another day.
You have faith that your heart and lungs and brain and other organs will continue to work for you this day."

Me:

Yet another ridiculous statement from a believer, with a desperate attempt to prove faith to have any rational validity.

I can not know for absolute certainty that the sun will rise tomorrow, I can't even know (for its absolute semantical meaning of the word), that I'll be alive in 5 minutes time. Do I think that I'll be alive tomorrow? Unless my empirical knowledge and rational thought tells me otherwise, then yes. (for example, that I know that I have a terminal illness, that only grants me the certainty that I'll live one more day).

Instead of believing that I'll live to see another day, I confirm to a certainty.

That's the difference between believers and free-thinkers/rationalists; instead of believing something to be true, we test it beyond doubt, leaving the untruths behind!

The believer is truly blind of the reality that surrounds him.

1