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Originally Posted by HardDrive
This certainly is true for Buddhism. What I found so attractive about it was that Buddha himself stressed that it was very important for people to not believe him. To believe him would be mean that you were taking it on faith, and he didn't want you to have faith, he wanted you to take action. Follow his instructions, and make it happen for yourself. Its an instruction manual, not a faith.
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The problem with this, is our brain works by believing or not believing inputs, our entire thought process is faith based on what we want to take in.
People can take action based on a flat earth, because that is what they believe, people can take action based on a globe, because that is what they believe.
Each person has his own filter of what he finds faith in, without faith we are brain dead.
You can find consensus's of things believed in common, such as reading 10 = 9+1 if you automatically have faith in base 10.
But what about the guy that sees 10 in binary?
Whether we want to admit it or not, the entirety of human knowledge is based on faith, separation of what we believe to be fiction or non fiction.