Faith really is a crock of horse shit.
It's a failed epistemology in that it can't be a path to the truth for multiple incompatible belief systems.
Yet for some reason, we still seem to accept faith as a virtue despite all evidence to the contrary.
WTAF?
@stuartblair I think part of the problem is that most people do not know what faith is, or how and when to use it.
Faith isn't supposed to mean "believe things despite them obviously being nonsense."
Faith is meant to be a strategy where when you have incomplete information, you act as if the world is the way you'd need it to be.
Faith in stupidity isn't faith, it's just not knowing how to brain.
@AskTheDevil can you think of a situation in which, ahead of knowing the outcome, acting on faith rather than empiricism is the best way to proceed?