My wife is very empathetic and has had a difficult time buying the idea that there could be so much evil and the media is protecting/perpetuating the evil.
Then we got Covid (confirmed positive tests, yes). And we took ivermectin. It helped me get mostly better after only 10 hours of being real sick. Similar experience to Joe Rogan. For her she took it, was getting better, then secretly stopped taking it because she didn’t fully buy what I had told her about it. Then she got worse and worse while I got better. Two days later she said she’d take it again… and within an hour her symptoms went down. This morning (18 hrs later) she seems to be almost over it all.
I showed her that great doc on the history of ivermectin and she’s now finally taken the red pill because she experienced how this drug really does work and if people are suppressing it then… well… evil… and she’s now pissed about it… first major red pill.
Because it's not based on science, facts, logic, or reason? Those are the opposite of faith.
Not necessarily the opposite of faith in God.
To believe in science, facts, logic, and reason, you’d have to have faith that you’ve been provided correct information. You’d have to have faith in your own ability to determine whether you have correctly interpreted the information.
So, faith isn’t just blindly accepting whatever comes your way.
Believing in those things is not the same kind of "faith" as that which is used by religious people to have faith in god. My "faith" in the stability of my chair, for instance, is from scientific knowledge of how chairs work and have been proven to work, as well as precedence of chairs working in the past. Sometimes the chair fails, and then one can study what went wrong, such as too much weight on the chair or a damaged piece of the chair.
With the other definition of faith used by the religious, they believe in god based on no science at all nor any precedence of some other god existing.
Therefore faith as it is used by religious people really is the opposite of science, logic, facts, and reasoning. Because none of those support god.