Sango, Guillermo V.C.

BSIT IT201
Philosophy
Professor: Jumel G. Estrañero

Is it good or bad to have faith?

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PRELUDE

Why is Faith so Important? Sometimes, when things don’t go according to plan, we

lose faith, not only in ourselves, but also in any potential outcome in our lives. Failure will do that
to you. When we experience life’s monumental failures, it’s easy to lose hope, and even faith.

People have so many belief in, that’s why there so many gods like Allah, Yahweh, Jesus
and etc. so why they create so many gods even they all the same. Because it’s just a imagination
or not? So let’s talk about what is faith is all about and then we decide if this is a good or bad.

ANATOMY

The first kind of faith I’ll talk about is blind faith. With this kind of faith, you are told
something – in church or from a religious leader or a guru or whatever – and you simply believe it.
You believe it because you believe that person has the truth, or you believe that the tradition or
teaching they represent has the truth – and that’s that. You believe it no matter what.

Now educated faith has several subsets – it comes in several different kinds. One kind
is where people accept something because a source of authority says to accept it – an authority
figure, or a supposedly authoritative tradition or book. People who have this kind of faith believe
things on authority, perhaps without thinking much about whether there are other reasons to believe
or disbelieve those things. However, they still refuse to believe things that contradict what we know
or that contradict decent morality. They still hold their beliefs on the basis of authority, but they
reject certain beliefs or at least don’t take those beliefs at face value. They reject outright the beliefs
that contradict knowledge or morality – or at least they don’t quite accept those beliefs. But with
other beliefs, where they don’t have these reasons to reject a belief, they believe what they’re told.

A number of atheists, especially the so-called New Atheists, are calling for the
abolition of faith. They think faith is always a bad thing, and that once you allow faith into your
thinking you have let something irrational into your thinking and you are contributing to religious
fanaticism. According to these atheists, once you admit the possibility of believing something
without evidence, you are making room for the kinds of beliefs that are not only lacking in evidence,
but also downright bad. They claim that once you embrace faith, it’s a slippery slope to embracing
some kind of faith that would make you do something evil. So they want to get rid of faith altogether
and replace it with reason. They usually consider reason to be science; they usually equate reason
and science – which is an inaccurate equation, because science is only one form of rational inquiry.
But that’s a separate topic.
Why is it good to have faith and bad to have doubts about God?

I’m gonna take a wild guess that you are relatively young, that you received a childhood
indoctrination into the religion of your parent or parents, and that you are having some doubts
about whether that religion is really true.

The people who are telling you to have faith, to just believe, are fearful that you may end
up no longer believing in, and ultimately leaving, the religion of your childhood indoctrination.
Would that be a bad thing, if it were to happen? If it should turn out that this religion really is “the
one true faith”, then I guess we could assume it would be bad. If it turns out that this religion is not
“the one true faith”, then it would be reasonable to assume it would be good to stop believing in it.

The writings attributed to St. Paul in the Christian Scriptures provide diverse interpretations
of the relation between faith and reason. First, in the Acts of the Apostles, Paul himself engages in
discussion with "certain Epicurean and Stoic philosophers" at the Aeropagus in Athens (Acts
17:18). Here he champions the unity of the Christian God as the creator of all. God is "not far from
any one of us." Much of Paul's speech, in fact, seems to allude to Stoic beliefs. It reflects a sympathy
with pagan customs, handles the subject of idol worship gently, and appeals for a new examination
of divinity not from the standpoint of creation, but from practical engagement with the world.
However, he claims that this same God will one day come to judge all mankind. But in his famous
passage from Romans 1:20, Paul is less obliging to non-Christians. Here he champions a natural
theology against those pagans who would claim that, even on Christian grounds, their previous
lack of access to the Christian God would absolve them from guilt for their nonbelief. Paul argues
that in fact anyone can attain to the truth of God's existence merely from using his or her reason to
reflect on the natural world. Thus this strong compatibilist interpretation entailed a reduced
tolerance for atheists and agnostics. Yet in 1 Corinthians 1:23, Paul suggests a kind of
incompatibilism, claiming that Christian revelation is folly the Gentiles (meaning Greeks). He points
out that the world did not come to know God through wisdom; God chose to reveal Himself fully to
those of simple faith.

Requiem

In my opinion it’s ok to have faith. it becomes bad when you too obsess in faith. they use
name of their god for their own sake. Because if you have faith then that’s enough you don’t need
to argue with someone has another faith in their life. You should respect it because all of you has
a different belie in your life that’s why there so many religion even gods exist now. Look at Hitler,
Hitler believe that their race is superior than Jews.

Many historians point to Hitler’s years in Vienna as having shaped him. Between 1908 and
1913 the young Hitler unsuccessfully tried to set himself up as an artist there. The city had a large
Jewish community just before the First World War (1914-1918) – nearly 9% of the two million
residents were Jewish – but the social climate was openly antisemitic. With an outspoken anti-
Jewish mayor (Karl Lueger) and many anti-Jewish newspapers and magazines there was no
restriction on antisemitism, and Hitler was strongly influenced by this.

The defeat of Germany in the First World War also had a great impact on Hitler’s world
view and political beliefs. Hitler was a soldier and – like many other German soldiers – found it hard
to accept the defeat of the German Empire. Many nationalists and conservatives believed that
Germany had not lost the war on the battlefield but due to betrayal from within, by a ‘stab in the
back’. Socialists, communists and particularly Jews were blamed, even though more than 100,000
German and Austrian Jews had served in the war and 12,000 had been killed.

After the war, Hitler joined a new extreme rightwing party, the National Socialist German
Workers’ Party (NSDAP), quickly becoming its strongman because he could inspire people with his
speeches. He noticed that propaganda against Jews and Bolsheviks (often mentioned together)
struck a chord with audiences and voters. He claimed Jews were not only responsible for the unfair
German defeat but were also blocking Germany’s recovery.

Faith symbolized fear for us, can you imagine people who has no fear? We don’t know
what they can do because they have no fear. They can do a lot of unexpected things like robbery,
killing, rape, and etc. but many people who’s not a faithful person but they know what is right and
what is wrong. I believed all of people who going to church just to pray and have some strong faith
is good and people who don’t go to church to pray and less faithfulness is not all bad. Because the
only thing they don’t have faith in my opinion it can ruin their belief in life. They choose to believe
themselves other than to go to religion debate what is the most capable to faith in. but the one thing
I want to ask them, why they create so many religions? But we are only humans we eat, sleep,
work, hurt, tired, poop, and die in the same way.

Faith, like many fundamental principles, is often misunderstood and suffers from many
stereotypes. Many dismiss faith as childish or primitive; not fitting for a sophisticated mind and
scientific method driven by reason and free inquiry. Those that reject faith are not only wrong; they
are actually doing themselves a disservice. Because, in truth, faith is one of our most valuable and
powerful resources. Faith is innate in all of us — it is our natural state of being. Faith is the power
to go beyond our limited parameters and believe — and hope — in greater possibilities. Faith is the
ability to dare. The challenge is to access our inner faith, to cultivate and harness its extraordinary
energy. If you feel distanced from the idea of faith, here is an opportunity to reacquaint yourself
with the basics of what faith is and is not.

Faith it is a powerful, positive force in our lives. It is a faculty that recognizes truths that
transcend the physical, sensory world. Faith is the pure experience of connecting to a power greater
than yourself. Faith is the entity that prevents life from being a series of logical and illogical events,
providing a sense of continuity and seamlessness in a fragmented world. Faith is plain, humble
truth. Reason may tell us how to live, but faith tells us why to live, Faith begins where reason and
logic end.
 Faith is not a creation of our imagination meant to deal with issues that we can’t
comprehend. Faith is not an absence of reason. It’s not a sign of weakness. It is not what you
resort to when all else fails. Faith is not childish naivete, gullibility, or laziness. It is not less
integral than the faculty to think or feel. Faith is not a crutch.

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