Saturday, May 1, 2010

Response to Karla

"How strong is your faith?"

First, to answer this question, I must describe what faith is for me. Faith is not believing in a God for me. It is not trusting in him when all else seems to fail. Faith is something that is very difficult to explain. It is not being afraid to believe in what you don't know fully if it exists or what. It is also more than this. Believing in things we simply cannot live without. Love, friendship, humanity, existence. Most of the time faith is just automatically associated with a belief in a God. But people can have faith in other things. For example, I have faith in humanity.

So, how strong is my faith in humanity? Very strong. I believe that there is something deep within us that will allow humans to overcome any kind of violence they may act out in. Right now, it seems that the only focus of humans is to be selfish and violent. However, I believe that someday soon, all differences will be put aside. All actions of violence or greed will cease and the goodness of humans will come out. And from this goodness will come a greatness and power that violence could never fulfill.

Question: Do you think it is possible to ever have no faith of any kind in anything?

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