“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.”
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
To try to fashion something from suffering, to relish our triumphs, and to endure defeats without resentment: all that is compatible with the faith of a heretic.
The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.