How much faith is a good amount?

The stronger faith in Jesus Christ, the better.

I think 0 - for the rest of these, I require an increasing level of proof. However, operationally, I'd say about 5 or 6 - that is, for these two items, you should still be operating with that assumption (which is a form of faith) unless you have compelling reason to believe otherwise. Beyond that, you should require proof, and watch out for shell-game like machinations.

"Faith" by definition, is belief with no proof.

For sure, I would not submit to a surgery, that some surgeon had "faith" that it would work!!!!!! I'd ask for real, solid, hard evidence and statistics that my chances of a good outcome were hugely, HUGELY in my favor.

What you have listed up here are not examples of having faith.

They are examples of one's opinions. Chairs can be for lots of things, not just sitting:

The earth isn't a sphere, it is a spheroid,

Green beens aren't heathy at all if it is all you get in your diet, and so on.

In the realm of science, we ask for evidence, and if the evidence suggests our conclusions are wrong, we change the conclusions.

Since this is under R&S, religions, are faiths, and since they are all different, it would only prove, than people believeing in them have different ideas as to what is and is not likely true....

And that is one of the reasons lots of folks don't believe in god......

Here are the usual reasons thinking folks don't believe in gods........

1) Supernatural explanations are ALWAYS replaced by natural explanations:

All of these things were once attributed to god(s) or spirits:

floods,

hurricanes,

the existence and movement of the Sun, Moon and stars,

the tides,

earthquakes,

disease

failure of crops,

rain or drought,

tidal waves,

eclipses, why children look like their parents,

the diversity of life.

ALL of them have since been explained as our understanding of the natural world has improved.

Number of natural explanations replaced by supernatural explanations???????????????? zero. ZERO!!!!!!

2) All the world's religions are absolutely inconsistent.....

If God is soooooooooooo important and ever-present in our lives, why can't anybody agree on anything about God? If God is not important or ever-present, why does God matter?

3) Arguments for God are always weak:

The arguments presented by religious people fall into the same categories: argument from authority (God exists because the Bible says so), argument from personal experience (I just KNOW God exists), and special pleading (God is above being questioned). None of these are based on logic or evidence.

4) God keeps shrinking:

In the Old Testament, God parted seas and made worlds. Now God seems to only give comfort to a few individuals ---and lets other die by the millions. Hmmmmm.

5) Religion comes from parents:

Children may learn more about subjects than their parents, may have differing views about so many things (politics, social issues, etc.). But religion is almost always chosen, not by the individual, but by the individual's parents.

6) Our understanding of God never improves:

2000 years ago we had a bunch of different religious factions, all bickering or warring over their different interpretations of their gods. That is exactly what we have today. Our understanding of God never improves because there's nothing to understand. But over the same time period, our understanding of the natural world has grown:

- from huddling around a wood fire to harnessing the power of the atom;

- from witch doctors to eradicating smallpox and polio;

- from astrology to the Hubble Telescope;

- from mud huts to skyscrapers;

- from camels to Airbus;

- etc...

7.) Complete lack of evidence

If a powerful god wishes our worship, he/she/it need only part a sea, write in the sky or do SOMETHING sufficiently grand and inexplicable, and all religions would unite, all bickering would cease, and all atheists would pray. If a giant voice boomed across the Earth and said "You must protect the planet, must never have more than 2 children, must help a person in need every day, and must stop burning coal and oil within 5 years or I will smite you all", the entire planet would unite in common purpose.

8 is irrelevant, I am here.

but 3 is good enough.

0,1,2, maybe 3, maybe 4, maybe 5, maybe 6, and probably 8.

10 alday

well now that we have that in roper perspective, i guess 10

Ten