What Is Religious Faith

What Is Religious Faith

We often discuss the word ‘faith’ with our religious opponents. One of the weapons we overlook is asking them, “What makes up faith?” and “Why do you have faith in your god?”

Since they quite often, and quite immaturely, attack us when we use the innocent word ‘belief’, we need to immediately attack them for their unsubstantiated ‘faith’.  To do this, we must have a solid plan of attack.

First, let’s discuss why they have faith.  We all think that they are indoctrinated in their religion so deeply that we can’t challenge their belief system.  But, that’s wrong most of the time.  The ones who come to Twitter to troll us aren’t the strong ones.  They have the need to prove themselves like the schoolyard bully.

The definition of faith in the dictionary is: “firm belief in something for which there is no proof (2): complete trust”.  So, we should remind them of the definition and then ask them for proof of their god’s existence.

The challenge for us is to get them to doubt their faith.  It’s important to remind them that they are childish enough to accept a ridiculous premise that their god is real.  When I was a child, I held on to childish things; when I became an adult I chose grownup things. Remind them of that.

Asking them to describe their god could be a good tactic.  Blue eyes? Brown hair?  Ask them if they have faith in Zeus or Baal.  Keep hitting on their faith and try to make a small crack in it.  Don’t be afraid to laugh at them for their foolishness.

That’s all we need is to create a tiny bit of doubt.  It’s the way we make new atheists.

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