Question Everything: What is the difference between faith and delusion?
Posted on: February 5, 20106 comments so far (is that a lot?)
Tomorrow I will be traveling for the better part of the day, so I thought I would try something different in place of a new post or video. One of the things that was really important to me when I was creating Life On Blast was that I wanted to provide a place for people to talk about things they might normally not think of or bounce off of other people. I hoped to act as the catalyst for people from all over the country (or the world!) to share their ideas about all kinds of things. Life, music, relationships, art… things you might not talk about around the water cooler. Things that matter so very much more.
Once per week I will be posting a question, idea, or topic: and I want you guys to share your opinions. I plan to chime in right along with you, there in the comments. This isn’t my soapbox. Sharing a dialogue that others can take part in has always been what I’ve wanted to do with this site more than anything else.
Hopefully, by the time I reach my destination tomorrow there will be some great responses, and I plan to reply using the built in video option. It’s much more personal, don’t you think?
The answer to this weeks question is something I’ve pondered for a while now. I’m curious to hear what people have to say about this.
Okay so who’s first? Put it on blast!
February 5th, 2010 at 1:16 am
Not being a religious person myself, I do respect those who have faith in a high being but to me they are a bit delusional. Believing and having faith in something that can be seen and gives you no real reason to have faith in is a bit delusional if you ask me. Most religions are based in books that have been censored by religious leaders for monetary benefit. If your going to have faith in anything it should be yourself and those around you. But faith does take belief and trust and faith takes a certain strength not all people have.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Faith = delusion.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
I personally think faith and delusion are quite similar, but faith to me is someone’s sane mind believing by their own will. Also delusion is someone whose mind is close to insane on something they are tricked into believing. It all depends also on what the faith or delusion the people are believing in since their are many different types of faiths out their in the world including delusions. Also I looked up the meaning of both words and Faith is a belief without proof and delusion is a false belief. But their are so many answers to this question that theirs no true correct answer in my opinion.
February 5th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
We all have faith. Those that do not have religious beliefs still have beliefs, and in many cases they do not have any more support for their belief than someone with a religious view. They may have faith in science, but science can only tell you about the physical world, not the metaphysical.
Take for example the creation of the universe. Scientific evidence strongly suggests that our universe began at a finite time in the past, and in essence, space and time itself came into being out of nothing. The universe is also incredibly fine-tuned to support life, and the chances of that happening are truly astronomical.
The Judeo/Christian view attributes this to a creator, and that is supported by a logical argument. That which *begins* to exist, must have a cause, the universe began to exist, therefore the universe must have a cause. That cause also must be outside of the universe, and inherently it must be a personal, all powerful agent capable of initiating the cause. You can’t have an infinite regression of uncaused causes. In other words, there was a big bang, so there must be a big banger.
On the other side of the question there are those that reject the idea of a creator a priori, and they look for all kinds of crazy theories to explain the origin and fine-tuning of the universe, such as a multi-verse with an infinite number of universes we can’t see. One could just as easily say faith in that kind of belief is delusional.
February 10th, 2010 at 7:31 pm
Hey guys! You’ve all left some excellent responses to this, thank you: I love it! I’ll be leaving my video comment later on tonight talking about some of the ideas you’ve brought up and sharing some of my own as well. Hopefully, I’ll inspire you to keep the conversation going.
February 15th, 2010 at 6:24 pm
(Delayed but on it’s way! It’s been a busy week, guys, for those of you who tweeted! SOON!!!)
xo
AJ