From: Brian Holtz [brian@holtz.org] Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 10:31 PM To: alt.atheism.moderated Subject: Re: On Perception of Reality Jim Humphries wrote: > To 'posit' a deity just means to suppose/assume that > it is true No, it can also mean "to affirm the existence of", where "affirm" is not merely taken as hypothetical. It should be perfectly obvious that this is what I meant, and your misconstrual of it seems like a desperate attempt to yet again avoid answering my oft-repeated questions to you about 'faith': 1. Can you name a single person of religious faith who does not satisfy my definition -- or a single person lacking religious faith who nevertheless does satisfy my definition? 2. Would you agree that it is inadvisable to hold any belief based on revelation and exempt from doubt? > one could affrim something without > believing it! M-W: "1b. to state positively. [..] synonym: assert" > I notice that again you have snipped your definition The moderator has asked that deep quoting be minimized. For our purposes, you can consider my definition of 'faith' to be "belief in an authority whose revealed statements are considered exempt from doubt". -- brian@holtz.org http://humanknowledge.net