Belief is pointless I'd say.
Things either exist or they don't. If you squeeze your eyes shut and tell yourself cars don't exist, won't stop you getting fucked up walking across a motorway. God as a concept or ideal I can accept to a degree but as a physical being? Not at all.

It does all boil down to belief at the end of the day, after the full 90 mins etc... but faith means dick really, it's just telling yourself something over and over again for the sake of it, regardless of it being true or not. There is as much evidence for the existence of Batman as there is for a God.

Mankind has looked at a deity for answers to tough questions many many thousands of years before the deity of Judaism/Christianity/Islam. I personally think we might just not need the crutch anymore.

Again, I live in Glasgow, what the fuck would I know.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 0:57, archived)

You're the first one to mention "faith",
and you have defined it peculiarly, from my perspective.

I believe only what makes sense to me, knowing that we do not have direct experience of reality, but only have access to sense impressions from which the truth must be deduced as best we can.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:13, archived)

Faith is to believe in something despite a complete lack of evidence, or indeed evidence to the contrary.
Religion is built on faith. Essentially you either have it or you don't and I don't.

May father is a priest in the Scottish Episcopal church and this is essentially how he'd define it. You're with it or you're out, you accept all the stupid hocus pocus stuff and just ride with it or you don't.

Getting hooked up on "what is reality" is essentially self defeating.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Thu 6 Oct 2011, 1:27, archived)