We Think Atheist Ep 5: Faith is a weakness
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The problem with using the word faith is that it has many meaning based on its context and most can be interchanged
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When you hope to get a job, you at least feel there is the possibility that it could happen. You don't hope for things that can't possibly happen. Faith is a bit stronger, but people talk of faith when they get devastating news like a brain tumor. "I have faith everything will work out okay" is used just like "I hope everything will work out okay". They aren't exactly the same, but I don't think it is fair to say the words are that distinctly different. They are used interchangeably too often.
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When you say you have faith you will be hired or survive a brain tumor, that's when you have a "confident expectation".
I'm pretty sure Webster isn't the final word on hope.
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Despite what the dictionary says about hope, that's definitely not what hope means to mean... and I would definitely say it's a subjective experience. When I go to a job interview, I hope I get hired. Even if I know I failed miserably in the interview, I still hope. Even if it's unlikely you'll survive a brain tumor, you still hope you will. The likely outcome has little to do with whether or not we hope for the best.
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Hope is often more than just something we would like to happen. I would like to be a billionaire, but have no hope of that happening. The first definition by both Websters & the Free Online Dictionary are the same:
1. A wish or desire accompanied by confident expectation of its fulfillment.
Used in that context, with a confident expectation of fulfillment, hope & faith
aren't very different. Faith is something believed with a strong or confident conviction & hope a confident expectation.
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"Use hope for the things we cannot control"
Yes, that's it!
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"Instead of faith, let us use reasonable expectation based on observation, and use hope for the things we cannot control."
How is hope all that different from faith in that context? Looks the same to me.
I hope things will work out. I have faith things will work out. Don't really see much difference.
tuggleprentiss 2 years ago
Faith and hope are, by definition, distinctly different. Saying "I hope this happens" is like saying "I would like this to happen". Saying you have faith it will happens means you BELIEVE it will.
WeThinkAtheist 2 years ago