An Old Testament, a credence, or at times sheer conviction… How do you define something that is so abstract, something which usually doesn’t have a physical proof to substantiate itself? But still, we all wake up every morning with faith in one form or the other. The believer wakes up believing there is a higher power that’s going to decide the course of this day, the mother wakes up believing her son at war is safe, the wife wakes up believing her husband would not cheat on her when on a business trip…
So yea, it’s abstract but still decides the very course of our existence. It’s the faith in oneself that gets one going; it’s the faith on each other that binds two people in a relationship and its mere faith that keeps the civil order from turning into outright barbaric. Then again, the very fact that faith is such a subjective norm makes its concept rather debatable. One cannot generalize where to draw the line between faith and obscure hunches. And it’s when this line is crossed; the consequences can be rather dire. It is surprising how the Wikipedia page for ‘faith’ primarily focuses on religious doctrines instead of dealing with the concept of faith on a more generic plateau. What might seem to be a rather trivial observation has rather sinistrous effects when one takes into account the religious extremism at work at all corners of the world. Fanatic movements driven in the name of faith is a common head line in the dailys across the world. The word - Faith was probably coined as a word for belief and affirmation, but over the years it seems to be have taken a completely different connotation, it has been narrowed down consistently to religious palette and being used as an excuse to carry out fanatic crusades.
And it’s definitely not articles written over a cup of Latte that can revive the word Faith to its original form, it’s only when we let our sense of better judgement choose what to bestow our faith in when we wake up every morning, would it be the clichéd better place to live in.
