People tend to be ironic; paradoxical — usually the more insistently opinionated, the more so.
Regarding religious "faith", I think this Alan Watts quote sums it up nicely:
"...a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."
-- Alan Watts
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"You cannot prove the nonexistence of God. You just have to take it on faith." -- Woody Allen
Like it! That's a keeper.
Here's a fuller context of the Alan Watts quote, taken from alanwatts.com (run by Mark Watts, Alan Watts' son):
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
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