What Your Faith Actually Says About How You See Reality
Faith itself is an assertion of doubt.
The act of expressing “belief” is, by definition, an overt confession of uncertainty. The very need to express “faith” is a statement, clear as day, that you aren’t sure.
We think the profession of faith is a signal of conviction. We think it is a way to telegraph that we are immovable. But the loudest declarations of belief are actually the sound of someone who is nervously whistling past the graveyard of their own doubt, completely unaware that needing faith in the first place demonstrates that they aren’t already sure.
No one “believes” in what they already know to be true.
A declaration of faith is an admission that you are standing on unsteady ground.
Faith says, “I wont update my model based on evidence.”
It’s it is a deliberate, pre-commitment to refuse to calibrate your model of reality. If we strip away the moral and spiritual branding, we can see what faith actually is: a hardcoded, sometimes useful refusal to process new data.
Faith says, "I wont update my model based on evidence." It's it is a deliberate, precommitment to refuse to calibrate your model of reality. If we strip away the moral and spiritual branding, we ca see what faith actually is: a hardcoded refusal to process new data.