tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982676814378462478.post1445601032005967228..comments2023-06-26T15:42:05.738+01:00Comments on Tim's Old Blog: Faith or World-view?TimNhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06837257197665027260noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982676814378462478.post-20632913397029460372009-01-26T16:06:00.000+00:002009-01-26T16:06:00.000+00:00I'm afraid I'm not that metaphysical either and ca...I'm afraid I'm not that metaphysical either and can only really cope with using the word "faith" as a firmly held conviction that something is true or trustworthy. Anything else is a bit woolly. It all depends on yer basic epistomology don't it...TimNhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06837257197665027260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7982676814378462478.post-51931428627010205262009-01-26T14:34:00.000+00:002009-01-26T14:34:00.000+00:00I've been through the idea that atheist belief in ...I've been through the idea that atheist belief in no God is of the same value as the Christian belief in God argument so many times it gets tedious. <BR/><BR/>Usually, my response to it is based on singing the praises of the Christian idea of faith. Which is a virtue mentioned in the same breath as hope and love. <BR/><BR/>If I understand it rightly, in the Christian context faith emerges through time and has to be fostered. I guess it comes through prayer or something. Its all a little theoretical for me.<BR/><BR/>I don't think its fair to give the same value to a belief that there is no God. Which is, if anything a state of being characterised by a lack of the assurance that comes from faith. <BR/><BR/>There's also the classic Richard Dawkins argument against non-belief in God being a form of belief, and I'm working on an argument that the problem with the statement is in the fact that it makes a category error.<BR/><BR/>But as you rightly point out, this is all really beside the point. Faith implies a faith in something and therefore has all kinds of unhelpful and problematic implications, wheras world-view is universal. <BR/><BR/>In the end of the day, I think religion is a good term too, in that it describes a certain type of behaviour that we can look at objectively without too many assumptions about the views behind it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com