Im noticing that lots of people are confusing belief with blind faith. The two are often used in conjunction with each other, I will agree, but they are not always the same thing. In order to learn anything new, one must make the effort to believe the lesson they are being taught. Truth exists as truth whether it is believed to be truth or not, yet in order for any truth to have personal significance one must accept the truth as fact; this requires belief. Saying, I dont believe in science, I just accept it as true is actually self contradictory. How can you say you accept it if you dont believe it? Believing in something doesnt necessarily mean you equate to it some sort of religious status. I believe the sun will rise tomorrow morning. Does this mean I worship the sun? Or that I am simply believing without justification? No, I believe the sun will rise because the sun has always risen every morning for as long as Ive been alive. I believe based on an established set of repeating circumstances that make the possibility of the sun rising again tomorrow morning extremely plausible. So, I accept the rising of the sun tomorrow because I believe the same set of circumstances which have repeated for the last 28 years are very likely to repeat again tomorrow. I could just as easily believe that the world will end tonight, even though there is no good reason for me to think so, in which case I would not accept as true that the sun will rise again tomorrow. In both cases I am both accepting and believing in a given concept; the first concept may be true while the second concept is false, but each requires both acceptance AND belief. The two are inseparable, whether you are the crazy man in the park who thinks the mayors dog is the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler or the new doctor on the block who is devoted to finding the cure for cancer. You cant actually accept anything as true without also believing that it is.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:27:33 +0000
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