Flirting With Relevance

There seems to be some confusion between the concepts of belief, faith and religion.

Belief is just that. It’s what we believe, politically, religiously and otherwise philosophically. Faith is what allows you to believe that which cannot be proven. Again, it is not necessarily a matter of any god or gods.

Religion is a system of beliefs, usually but not necessarily taken on faith. More than that, a religion is a codified version of such beliefs that has been agreed upon by more than one person, as well as the body of people who agree upon those beliefs. A religion is not the god or gods that the believers worship. It is only the collective agreement of those who believe in a common thing.

Do you have rights? Of course you do. What are they?

I’m not asking for a lengthy enumeration of each individual right that you believe you possess, but rather a definition of the word. When you speak of a right, what exactly are you talking about? When you speak of an automobile, you are referring to a (usually) four-wheeled vehicle powered (usually) by some form of internal combustion. In that vein, what are we actually discussing when we speak of our “rights?”

In order to get a grasp on who might be reading this blog and how you all might view the universe, we have a simple polls on the issue of morality.

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The words “ethical” and “moral” are often used interchangeably and this is probably correct. Indeed, each word appears in the definition of the other. The thesaurus feature in my word processor treats then as synonyms. Thus, they are just two names for the same thing, right?