Your “Faith” is Stronger than Mine!

Do you think there is a difference between faith and superstition?
Seems like every faith thinks the others' are superstition.

Then there are superstitions not really linked to any particular religion.
Those are also belief with no evidence.... tho of course one always get anecdotal evidence about what will happen "if".

I have a friend from one of the poor SE Asian countries. She is here now, got her BA, but talking with her, I'd hear her say things that were beliefs from her home country. Interesting thing tho, if I'd show how it didnt make sense, pretty soon she'd say "oh that is a superstition, I dont believe it now". Better still, pretty soon she was out looking for them herself, and when one came up she'd realize it for what it is and just drop it. Cool!

Not many seem able to do that. What I find really weird is people who are proud of their superstitions.

some of them like to think of it that way. They're the ones that just shake their heads at you and say "oh, you just don't understand. If you had faith you'd deel different." They seem to connect faith with the magical mystical magnificent mad mad mad mad madam Mim (sorry, couldn't resist) warm an fuzzy feeleings they get from their belief. If only those poor unbelievers could feel the POWER of FAITH they would understand! Their hearts would be opened! Unfortunately they don't understand the feelings themselves as naturally occuring from of community and friendship, so they'll never see why we reject faith.

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just being named Min doesnt automatically make me crazy, uh, does it?

Its a reference to a Disney character and the song she sings. She was a wizard... I think that's really the only reason it came up. Sigh. Thusly meanders my mind.

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On "illegal" immigration:
"Give us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses longing to be free..." -The Statue of Liberty

On the alleged connection between Hitler and Atheism:
"For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties." -Hitler, Mein Kampf, Volume II, Chapter X

Danth's Law: "If you have to insist that you've won an internet argument, you've probably lost badly."

its ok! i knew of mad madam min i used to get called that

I have brought this thread back, because a famous cretionist here has re-posted the idea that atheists have more faith than he does. Perhaps he would like to address the O.P. again.

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