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Originally Posted by luvmetender That may be true. And I'm glad you said it that way instead of the other way around (that you have to have faith before you can love).
When you talk about faith, are you only referring to faith in a higher power? Can it be faith in human nature? |
From my perspective the first question would be yes and the second one no. You already knew that would be the way I would answer. But as I said before, it depends on how you choose to define faith. It depends on your perspective.
Secondly, I suppose it would also depend on how you define faith in human nature. If it is a learned response to how humans behave, I wouldn't call it faith. I would call that experience. If you mean it is predictable, I wouldn't call it faith then either. I would call that wisdom. There are many aspects to human nature and one's cultural filter will obviously strain out those aspects which you determine bad and leave the ones which are good. I would call that criminal justice. That of course assumes that you distinguish any of human nature as bad or good. It might not matter in some cultures. It might not matter to you. Maybe then you would call it faith to believe that human nature contains nothing bad.