Can Anyone Please Explain

[nailit]

to me why faith is a 'virtue'?
Never understood it myself.
Serious question....

[Mamyalynne]

There have been a myriad of articles written on the topic, I cannot improve on those - personally I don't believe it's true in all cases.

[andy-hughes]

I guess it has to be a virtue, to encourage people to both obtain and retain it - but that is a guess from a non-believer.

[Tilly2]

Who says that?

[Old_Geezer]

If you have faith in nothing, how do you achieve anything ?
I have faith in many things. Starting with my own existence, and in maths.

[Mamyalynne]

I answered above based on the premise Nailit meant 'Religious Faith' not faith in general terms as we are in R&S topic.

[Old_Geezer]

When one asks about it being a virtue I don't see one should limit another's definition of the word.

[vetuste_ennemi]

If by faith you mean belief without evidence, or belief despite the evidence (which is what I think you mean, Nailit) then no virtue at all.

But if you think of faith in moral terms as in commitment to an ideal, or in terms of personal loyalties (trust and confidence in a person, or an institution, or a country) then you can see that "keeping the faith", that is not forsaking it at the first sign of difficulty, is a virtuous quality, and the more so when it incurs personal cost and risk to yourself.

[Mamyalynne]

Apologies O_G - I'm off having obviously misunderstood the question.

[Neveracrossword]

If anyone has ever had faith in you, Nailit, do you see that as a failing? Or is it only religious faith that's not to be considered a virtue?

[Peter Pedant]

well done v-e

[vetuste_ennemi]

//I answered above based on the premise Nailit meant 'Religious Faith' not faith in general terms as we are in R&S topic//

I don't believe religion and spirituality (in the usual defintion of the former and mine of the latter) are necessarily equivalent, and I can think of specific cases in which they are contradictory notions.

[Tilly2]

I'm just asking for Nailit's definition of a virtue. Where has he got that from?

[woofgang]

following on from V-e'as comment......hopepunk
https://festive.ninja/one-atom-of-justice-one-molecule-of-mercy-and-the-empire-of-unsheathed-knives-alexandra-rowland/

[Atheist]

I think faith means belief without rational justification. I can have 'faith' (or rather belief or confidence) in Nailit's decency if I have experienced his reliability over a long time. I wouldn't profess faith in somebody or something else without good reason. I don't believe whatever I am told unless I am given good reason to.

[Theland]

I think "faith is a virtue," is incomplete, and the rest of it is, " faith in .God."
I think I am right but may stand corrected.

[Jackdaw33]

The three cardinal virtues are Faith, Hope and Charity.

[douglas9401]

Can I put my hands on you?

[Theland]

Quite right Jack.
I think I stand by my former post.
The statement is incomplete if not specifying the object of faith.u

[Jackdaw33]

A Freemason would understand: Faith in the Great Architect of the Universe (God), Hope in Salvation and Charity to all men.

[Theland]

Yes. Specifying the object of fath.