The meaning of "faith"

The meaning of "faith"
The word "faith" is tricky because in most languages it has been twisted to have more than one meaning.

• The most popular one is "religious faith" - believing something because you want it to be true.
• Another meaning is "having faith in something", that is, expecting a positive outcome,trusting that something will come to pass - usually with good reasons.
• In some languages, faith is synonymous with "belief", which leads to the STUPID question by theists "so atheists don't believe in anything?".

Thousands of atheist man-hours have been wasted in pointless discussions, while trying to explain to theists the simple fact that words can have more than one meaning.

Re-posted from: http://lolgod.blogspot.com/2011/06/meaning-of-faith.html

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