@FBM,
Actually, it's a wise position. We live in a complex, rich environment about which we don't even know a significant fraction. Even the gabbling, philosophical word merchants recognize that people need to construct a frame of reference for their perceptions and activities. When you are necessarily ignorant of the nature of most of what surrounds you, you have to operate on beliefs which express your best estimate based on what you do know and what your experience of the world has been.
You seem to suggest that skeptics don't believe anything, and that's just silly. Skeptics are those who doubt accepted opinions, if the dictionary is to be relied upon. That doesn't mean that skeptics are the only class of human beings who operate only on what they "know." Like everyone else around them, they have to form beliefs which function to make their world comprehensible and manipulable. That they prefer their own opinions to anyone else's is not evidence that they are possessed of some special wisdom.
I don't believe there is a god, and i am skeptical of the "revealed truth" of scriptures. That's based on my best judgment of all that i have read, heard or seen on the subjects of deities and scriptures. It's certainly not a guess--i was raised in a church, and at first accepted the whole god/devil, heaven/hell claptrap. However, the older i grew to be, the less those stories conformed to my experience of the reality of the world, so i dropped them. I "do" belief all the time. Certitude is at a premium, and is sufficiently rare as to be noteworthy when one finds it. The rest of time, i, like everyone else, operate on beliefs which are formed from arcane learning, experience, intuition and a reliance upon reasonable authority.
(Before you ask, i consider reasonable authority to be someone who has minutely studied a subject, and who makes statements which they are able explain in simple language, and to defend with accounts of experience and research. I don't do well with the "because i say so" variety of authority.)
