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What is it called when you believe something without proof?
This Is a Quora Question
Click on the title to see the original question on Quora, but I will answer this question here on Medium, instead of Quora.
To answer the question directly, it is faith — believing in something without proof. But, then, what can you have faith in?
Well, the most obvious thing you get is all the pseudoscience garbage out there in the world today. People believe the Flat Earth, the Hollow Earth, Young Earth Creationism, Astrology, Alchemy, Tarot, and Dowsing Rods, among many many others. Here’s a wiki on the whole lot of them (and this is a whole lot to swim through):
You also get all of the religions. No religion has proved itself valid. Not one. Yet, billions of people are believers of one faith or another. The state of the world needs clear eyed citizens, so this flotsam and jetsam of human thought (or lack thereof) needs immediate upgrading to modern standards. There are over 45,000 Christian denominations world-wide. The reason no consensus is possible is because…
