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Tue Mar 2 19:35:02 2010

Faith is the confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, idea, or thing. The word "faith" can refer to a religion itself or to religion in general. As with "trust", faith involves a concept of future events or outcomes, and is used conversely for a belief "not resting on logical proof or material evidence." Informal usage of the word "faith" can be quite broad, and may be used in place of "trust" or "belief."

Faith is often used in a religious context, as in theology, where it almost universally refers to a trusting belief in a transcendent reality, or else in a Supreme Being and/or this being's role in the order of transcendent, spiritual things.

Faith is in general the persuasion of the mind that a certain statement is true. It is the belief and the assent of the mind to the truth of what is declared by another, based on his or her authority and truthfulness. The English word faith is dated from 1200–50, from the Latin fidem, or fidēs, meaning trust, akin to fīdere, which means to trust.

Allegory of faith, by L.S. Carmona (1752–53). Veil symbolizes the impossibility to know directly the evidences.

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Eboo Patel: Rev. Otis Moss at Obama's Faith Council
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hu, 11 Mar 2010 12:59:07 GM

The President sounded the call of history. "I suspect that someday in the future, we'll look back at this . Faith. Council as a model of how things should be done."

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:28:00 GM

There seems to be a lot of posts lately that fall into the category of addressing . faith. vs. reason in Buddhism. It's not always a black and white division, but I kind of find myself scratching my head as to why so much energy is being ...

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2009) (relying on the rule's good-. faith. exception and refusing to require the suppression of evidence), cert. denied, No. 09-402 (Mar. 1, 2010). Similarly, before Gant, the Fifth Circuit refused to apply the exclusionary rule when ...

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Stop & Shop spokeswoman Faith Weiner agreed that progress is being made. We're narrowing the gap on open issues, she said. We're continuing to exchange ...

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Thu Mar 4 22:00:39 2010

What makes your faith more credible than the next schmoes faith?
Q. There are many different people who have believe in many different Gods. Some of them had faith so strong they sacrificed their children to the Gods. If faith is all you have to go on, what make your faith more credible?
Asked by Blubby - Mon Oct 6 18:25:02 2008 - - 4 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Faith is very personal. It is something people can personally identify with in their lives to give meaning in the world, peace of mind, comfort etc. No matter if you are Christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist etc, no matter what the teachings are, it all goes back to the one idea and one purpose. There's no such thing as 'credible faith' unless we were to get divine intervention. Otherwise, whatever people have faith in and believe in, this should be respected. And rather than criticizing or comparing, we should be open and accept our neighbours no matter what their faith.
Answered by Ben - Mon Oct 6 18:55:14 2008

What faith did you subscribe to before you became agnostic/atheist?
Q. Just curious. I think most of us non believers got that way by having faith, studying the word, and doin the faith dance. Study and experience led us to conclude it was silly, a waste of time. Do share.
Asked by miss answer kitteh - Sat May 16 14:49:48 2009 - - 11 Answers - 0 Comments

A. catholic... well I was raised that way but as soon as I was able to think for myself... well you know what happened
Answered by jayB - Sat May 16 14:53:16 2009

Why is the concept of full faith and credit so important to interstate relationships?
Q. Why is the concept of full faith and credit so important to interstate relationships?
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A. To avoid misunderstanding that will be caused by your different culture orientation.
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Sun Feb 28 06:55:35 2010

Quotations about faith

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  • "Faith is generally nothing more than the permission religious people give to one another to believe things strongly without evidence." ~Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation (2006)
  • "Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don't argue with it - especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible"
  • "Faith creates the foundation for conviction."
  • "Faith is cold as ice. Why are little ones born only to suffer for the want of immunity or a bowl of rice? Well, who would hold a price on the heads of the innocent children if there's some immortal power to control the dice?" ~ Rush, Roll the Bones
  • "Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate." ~ Richard Dawkins
  • "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." ~ St. Augustine
  • "Faith is the surrender of the mind, it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other animals. It's our need to believe and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. ... Out of all the virtues, all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated" ~Christopher Hitchens