http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers Philosophy, Ethics, Atheism, Nietzsche Fri, 24 May 2013 03:39:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2013/04/why-i-define-faith-philosophically-as-inherently-irrational-and-immoral/ http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2013/04/why-i-define-faith-philosophically-as-inherently-irrational-and-immoral/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 18:20:16 +0000 Daniel Fincke http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/?p=26998 Faith is willfully committing (whether explicitly or implicitly) to a relationship (or relationships) of trust, loyalty, hope, and/or belief (a) beyond perceived rational warrant, (b) against perceived predominance of counter evidence of untrustworthiness, and/or (c) against all possible future counter-evidence that may undermine currently perceived evidence of trustworthiness. 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