as long as you believe in something more than yourself and follow your conscience then you probably have a faith of some kind #bbctbq
No. Unless you just mean hope & confidence. Meaning of faith in this sense is believing in things without evidence. It's not a virtue.
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it depends how you define evidence - you might have evidence that this belief is associated with good consequences for you and others
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Then you have evidence of the good consequences, not of the truth. If you believe it to have good consequences but not to be true, no faith.
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something with good consequences may be an indication of the of truth, as may something with bad consequences, either way truth is tested
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What does that mean? It can indicate the truth about consequences but what else?
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everything involves faith of some kind as nothing can be exclusively proven and all interaction involves a form of deontological exploration
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It doesn't really. You can just accept that we can't know anything for sure & then work on evidence.
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humanists don't have some exclusive access to reason, rationality and knowledge - these can be accessed by people of religious faith too.
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Of course they can.
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