gpatton{at}bayou.com wrote in
news:crm8vm$4lp$1{at}nikalinux.nikaconsulting.net: 
 
> lsenders{at}hotmail.com wrote:
> 
>> Faith is ALWAYS based upon knowledge.
> 
> I have been to a village in Korea that had at it's edge a huge stone
> fertility symbol about seven feet high.  Some females of the village
> had faith that if they preformed a certain ceremony near that large
> male symbol they would as a results greatly increase their chances of
> becoming pregnant.
> 
> That faith was based on something, but I am not sure "knowledge" is
> the best word to use.  So I think some people use the word "always" in
> circumstances where I would choose to use a less restrictive term.
> 

I am sorry but I must come down on the other side of the issue true faith 
is based on blind trust of the object. Otherwise faith is in one’s powers 
of evaluation/knowledge not the object.

 

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