Category:Belief

Belief is a fundamental attitude. It is an institution. It is an organising principle of an individual's way of being in the world. Belief is assent to something (or someone) and can be conscious or unconscious. A person confirmed in his or her faith has assented consciously to the religion in which he or she was raised. A person in his every step and every glance assents unconsciously to the existence of the world. To come to fully doubt a religion in which one was raised is not an easy thing for it is to deny the world one long abided in and to win for oneself a renovated world. To come to fully doubt the existence of the world in which one has always lived is an impossible thing for it is to deny one's own perceptions and to achieve their annihilation by thought alone. One may doubt what one sees or hears. One may not doubt that one sees or hears, even if only in a dream, even if only the darkness and the silence. Sights, sounds, gamit of perceptions cannot be thought out of existence. And unconsciously, to be subject to them is to assenting to them.