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)