On Thursday, September 13, 2012 8:43:39 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: > > Hi Bruno Marchal > > The shared part of religion (or science) is called belief(s). > They are exclusively in the fom of words. > For example words from the Bible, and the Creeds. > > The personal or private part of religion is called faith. > It is not belief, for it is wordless, is more like trust or > motivation. > Religion trusts its creeds, science trust the laws of physics etc. > > > It sounds like you are talking about the particular forms of religion though. In some other traditions, faith can be the public proclamation in words and belief is the privately expressed as wordless.
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