Ritu wrote:
Sort of, though not in the way you mean.
Let me try and elaborate - I believe in God because I like the idea of
someone having all the answers to all my questions. While that can be
defined as having faith that my fellow humans wouldn't be able to help
me out with that one, it could also be called a lack of faith in
humankind. Personally, I think that is just realism.
But who answers her questions? 8^) Belief in a god (or gods) may deflect
questions as an umbrella deflects rain, but the questions don't go away.
The other reason I went back to [sort of] believing was because I felt
like a hypocrite saying 'Heavens', 'God bless you' and other such stuff
when I refused to believe in God.
Someone said something similar to me - that people that say they don't
believe in a god are always using his name in vain, so that they really
_do_ believe or something like that. But its just a figure of speech.
Something you get into the habit of saying because many others around you
use the expression. I see no commitment or hypocrisy there.
To go back to the original question, about whether I have faith or not,
I think I do. But it is neither a faith in God [that She is perfect and
has a good, or a halfway decent, plan - She might but she really hasn't
told me anything about it], nor in humanity as a whole. I put my faith
in ideas, and in certain people. That is about it.
To me, that _is_ faith in humanity because humanity produces those ideas
and individuals. I don't believe that every single human will contribute
to our advancement; that would be ludicrous. Rather, I believe that
collectively we will continue to improve the human condition, and continue
to learn and understand more about the universe we live in.
--
Doug
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