Is faith a good thing? or bad?
In our society, it is common for people and popular media to hold 'faith' as a positive attribute. People of faith are given special consideration. People are told to look to faith when they are in need. However, faith is "belief without evidence" and sometimes faith is not just in the absence of evidence, but is entirely counter to the evidence (look at prayer over medical science for an example).
In my recent musings, I have realized it is faith that I find the hardest to accept from religion and theism. It bothers me that people take faith other demonstrable fact. It bothers me that people use faith to pick political candidates over experience or policy. I have come to view faith as a bad thing, a sign of a weak and lazy mind.