each day we wake up and go on our merry ways, each step of the way we take so many things on faith. the little, minute to minute things. how many of us understand how the various machines in our lives work? we take for granted that what was there yesterday will be there today (faith). we work each day expecting a paycheck (faith). we convert that check into money, expecting to use it to purchase our necessities (faith). we know how a burger will taste, how a siren will sound, how a woman will feel (faith, faith, faith).
without these simple acts of faith most of us would be quivering masses of paranoid jelly.

so it would seem to be with the greater questions in life.

is there a god? what happens after death? etc. etc. etc...

for those of you who place their faith in religion, that is your choice and you must live with the consequences and limitations inherent in that choice. for those of us called atheists and unbelievers, we have placed our faith in our senses. we have chosen to rely on our mental capacity and what facts we can discern on the nature of our reality.

is our degree of faith any less than yours? i think not. but what the hell do i know.