Thread:User talk:WaitingforGodot/"Dawkins and Pinker are jerks."/reply (24)

Yes, you have to make some reasonable assumptions about things, like science, where you normally have to accept that the peer review process generally means that scientific studies aren't lying; I wouldn't call this faith, but a reasonable trust based on past experience, probabilities, and logic that allows us make sense and understand the world around us. Religion just makes up a lot of bullshit and wants you to accept it for no good reason -- this is an aspect of all religions, not just ones that explicitly say 'faith' is a good thing.

""Anti religion" is a tenant that RELIGION (and as you say, faith) IS BAD. there is no support for this, and infact, significant support that religion, while at times horrific, is also good for people. When you look at the whole picture, it is no better or worse than any other human invention." 1. Faith (or, depending on your definition of 'faith', unreasonable faith) is what makes them bad, in my opinion -- that's one of the reasons. 2. Like I said previously, there's nothing uniquely good about religion. Then again, it's not really uniquely bad either, so that really just makes it one more stupid, wholly unnecessary aspect of humanity.