About Faith

I am trying to understand the concept of faith. Say it be in religious point of view or in daily life point of view.

I probably bias towards the interpretation of faith through mathematical analysis, since i can only argues within that domain.

Consider my paradox, I shall call it The LB Paradox of Faith:

Suppose that there are 1 billion people living in this good planet of Earth. 50% of the population are religious, which believes that the world is going to end up in smoke. And the other 50% don't believe at all any of the crap that the religious 50% is saying.

Being bothered too much by the religious 50%, the other 50% decided to create a new population in the planet Mars. The 50% nonreligious population hop in into their space shuttle and fly over to mars in one go.

However, one human decided to follow the shuttle for he fears that his life will end if he stays on earth. Now, without that one idiot in living in planet Mars, the population that shifted over to Mars are theoretically living without fear because their world will never end. But, suppose that idiot starts to tell people that the world will end in smoke, Mars will end up in smoke too, just like earth.

But Mars is Mars and Earth is Earth, how can there be two world that will end up in smoke. No matter where we are, as long as the belief is carried along, there will be no difference.

Religion works on the basis of Faith. Every inch requires faith. Remove faith, and there will be no religion. The simplest question one may ask may be if hell truly exists. Difficult to prove, one need not asks for proof. Just have faith that that place is there is sufficient.

Well, that sounds like assumption to me. We 'want' to believe that hell exists. If we don't 'want' to believe, surely we can forget about having faith in it. If we 'want' to believe, it is equivalent to we are truly not sure if it is there or not, and we don't care if it exist or not because we 'want' it to exist and make us happy. Believe it or not, every time we have faith in there is hell, we are actually telling ourself that we actually does not know if it exist or not. That is why we have faith.

If we know truly that hell exists, why need faith. If hell is there, it will be there. Just like a car. If we have a car, why have faith that we have a car. If we have a car, we indeed have a car.

Between faith and doctor, only idiot give it to faith when comes to sickness. Between, getting rich and poor, only idiot give in to fate. Between becoming educated and not, only idiot give in to faith.

For me, I decide my destiny.