Trust is something without which we cannot live in a society. When we buy milk in a carton and freely drink it, we trust that no one has added poison into it. When we board a plane we trust the pilot’s skill to fly the aircraft. When we consult physician we trust his/her medical expertise. Trust is an indispensable cement that holds the structure of society together.
Faith is the most sophisticated level of trust. It is implicit and unquestioning belief in the physical or ethereal existence of something for which there is no tangible evidence or proof.
Its function is to give hope, solace and inner peace to individuals with a believing heart. In so far as it is restricted to one framework of tenets, beliefs and Divinity-mode it can only enrich the spiritual life of an individual. However, sometimes , it becomes an aspect of mindless and mischievous intolerance. In brainwashed and misguided minds it incites one to propagate and compel others to accept and conform to one’s own faith, rejecting and abandoning the other’s faith. When this happens, as it has over and over again all through religious history, it is a disgrace to the faith-system that causes and promoted such behavior.
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