Faith

You continue to duck and dodge. So be it.

[quoteLeadfoot]When you can't succede with objectivity, snark always works.[/quote]
There is nothing objective about your assertion.

See what I mean?

Don't bother. He thinks he drops these comments of brilliance in a thread but then refuses to debate them.

Try it like this:
Leadfoot: ['quote]I wanna tell you.....['/quote] Without the apostrophe after [.
It'll look like this:

My reply wasn't snarky. It was matter-of-factly.

Right. I refuse to chase your red herrings.

I forgot to put "=" between "quote" and "Leadfoot."

So what was your point?

That mundane decisions that virtually no one makes on the basis of faith are stupid if a few chose to make them on that basis?

Wow! Stop the presses!

My point is that since faith is based on resonance it's a poor basis on which to act, especially in regard to decisions that affect others, because it lacks objectivity.

I agree with you, but that's precisely the problem. Those with faith believe they are objective.

And again you won't provide us with support for why it is "poor" other than the obvious fact that you really, really like what you consider to be "objectivity."

And where did you come up with this brilliant observation?

They actually do not, because they understand what faith is.

Oh, I'm always brilliant.

Care to respond with substance?

You wouldn't know substance if it stared you in the face!

M-hmm...

Matter of factly enough for you?

Care to respond with substance?

What's the difference between faith and belief? And what is the difference between faith and hope?

I guess it depends upon your definition of "belief"

Personally I don't think there is much of a difference because I define "belief" as an acceptance of a statement.

The actual difference arises from secondary definitions in which "faith" must be involved with "God" I don't pay this any mind.

Hope involves a desire for a certain outcome or truth. Now it can be argued that many people of faith desire that which they believe in, but it is not necessarily the case.

For example: Personally, I'm ultimately OK with what might be the fact that there is no God; and/or there is no hereafter: If this is the case, I'll die and that will be it. I won't be floating around in the Void in some metaphysical bubble tortured by the recognition of my non-existence.

I'm not afraid of a universe without God, and if what resonates within me proves to be untrue, there will be no "I" to care.

It makes sense to me that there is a God and a hereafter.

I can't prove it, so I have faith in it.

We can expect the anti-faith crowd here to now weigh in on their notions of fundamentalist Christians and these questions, but won't that be ridiculously narrow?