Destroying people belief?

[marshlander]

I think that one of the most fascinating things about faith-driven beliefs is that they tend to survive often even the greatest of adversities ...

... if you were to look at faith in a slightly more day-to-day sense ... I think it's PROBABLY safe to say that everybody has faith in somebody ... there must be at least one person in each of your day-to-day lives, be it mother, father, best friend or similar, in whom you have what we would class as "faith" ...

... faith to my mind, whether it be in a concept or an ideal or a person or a place, ought not be brought into doubt or question ... nor ought it to be up for challenge...

I daresay we shall have this discussion many more times

I would defend anyone's right to believe what they like with the usual proviso that they don't require others to believe the same things.

However, faith is a very different thing from trust and it sounds like you are not making much of a distinction. This is exacerbated by the way we often use the word "faith" in a colloquial way. We talk about having faith in other people when we actually mean we trust them, usually because we have experience, understanding and expectation (i.e. there is an evidence base) of how they will respond to people and to situations.

Faith is a different thing altogether. It is far more a belief in something that cannot yet and may never be proven or substantiated by scientific method. I believe that faith is more informed by hope than by evidence.