faith

I was thinking about the role faith plays in our acceptance or otherwise of various phenomena. I have known two people with a strong Christian faith, a work colleague and the father of a friend. Both were very open about their faith but it was personal to them. They would happily talk about...

Is Atheism A Belief System... or Fact? It just struck me - many people who are atheists seem to regard it as a fact, irrefutable. But isn't it a belief system, exactly the same as monotheism, polytheism, or agnosticism? Or is it scientific "fact"? I'm not sure how it's calssified, but it might...

Was Fort a partcular believer in God? I have not yet read BOTD, but I find very little reference to God in Forts works. The universe-as-organism ideas of Fort do not rule out there being a God, but I find it odd not to find mention of God. Thoughts?

Is a defining characteristic of Forteans that they are against faith? -Justin PS http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=faith I am referring to "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence" rather than "The body of dogma of a religion: the Muslim faith."...