Faith, stickily religious?

Brandon

Does it take faith to not believe in God? I would say yes, to rest your existence on the whit of a scientist that has no idea who you are, that has exercised theses theories, yet he, nor anyone one else has ever actually seen unfold before their eyes; Is similar to going on the whit of a spiritual leader who has exercised his theologies, and has had them proven in the spiritual mind.
So now that I have swung the pendulum completely to one side lets bring it back. Science is a refined method of finding truth and is more tangible then religious experiences, but I am talking about the big questions: Where did we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? Scientist have theorize some answers, still you would have to go just as much on a limb as you would for belief in God.

Belief that life is an accident |=| belief that it was created with purpose

Let me clarify where i am coming from
"If men were duly to consider themselves, and turn their thoughts and reflections to the operations of their own minds, they would readily discover that it is faith, and faith only, which is the moving cause of all action in them; that without it both mind and body would be in a state of inactivity, and all their exertions would cease, both physical and mental...Are you not dependent on your faith, or belief, for the acquisition of all knowledge, wisdom, and intelligence? Would you exert yourselves to obtain wisdom and intelligence, unless you did believe that you could obtain them? Would you have ever sown, if you had not believed that you would reap? Should you have ever planted, if you had not believed that you would gather?"

Joseph Smith

Imagine you are in a dinning room with a very elegant table with these amazing chairs. The chairs are so amazing they grab your attention. You study the floral design, then you get on all fours to check out the engineering of the chair, you admire how it was constructed. You conclude that chair could hold your weight if you sat in it. Is this faith? Not tell you release your balance, let gravity take you-- now you have faith that this chair will hold you.

A person who will turn their back on ideals of a religious zealots, say to themselves "there is no god" and who takes action to live that life, has faith that they have simple turned their back to a man made ideal. Is that not true?

Faith is power to act on what you believe