Why is faith considered a good thing?

Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking.

Having Faith in something which you have no proof is ridiculous. You are absolutely right!

There is one more dimension to Faith which could be something like, having Faith in your belief that Blind Faith is not a good thing. It can merely be as simple as having trust in the power of your legs for walking up and down on a ladder.

So when it comes to having Faith in a Deity which also happens to have a religion along with an entourage of customs, ethic, rituals etc. finding the right one or the one which appeals to you becomes crucial.

Because for some people, faith brings them more happiness than anything. It fills a void.

I have faith. It's not in Jesus Christ. My faith is so irrelevant to Jesus or God that I no longer fear hell or wish for heaven. I have faith in Mother Nature, and our home Earth. It's hard to explain without sounding like a lunatic.

I am fourteen, and have a very unique faith. I think about it often, and to me faith is a prompt. It is a base of deep thought. I spend a lot of time just looking at the trees and the sky thinking of why we are here, and how we can change our trashing of the Earth.

Spiritually speaking, it is not a good thing. Not when it interferes with seeking knowledge and enlightenment.

"Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking." -Bill Maher

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason." — Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack, 1758.

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner

"How many things which served us yesterday as articles of faith, are fables for us today." - Michel de Montaigne

"If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it." - Dalai Lama

"A lively, disinterested, persistent liking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt." - Henri Frédéric Amiel

"Faith is not wanting to know what is true." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, "I bet that my Redeemer liveth." - Samuel Butler

"Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!" - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted." - Albert Pike

Faith can be good or bad, depending on what one believes in.

Blind faith is especially frightening though.

Its the foundation for doomsday cults and fundamentalism.

To me, faith should be a form of hope. Have faith someone will get better or hope they'll get better.

It should not be used to lower ones IQ and refuse to acknowledge known facts just because they do not agree with their beliefs.

When you take a word with multiple definitions and make it into a word with only one definition, you set yourself up to remain in a state of mind where things are less understood.

Try some of the other definitions and things might become more clear to you.

By definition, faith is a firm belief in the "TRUTH" for which there is 100% proof!

/true believer/

Faith is considered a good thing because the general population determines what is good, and the general population believes in religion of some kind, so faith in that religion falls into the category of something that is good.

Is faith considered a good thing? Only to the christian. It's blind obedience in my book- something I can't tolerate. So my answer is that faith is NOT a good thing.

No doubt but action that generates more further actions into the goal like the force of momentum.