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Michael J. Hooper's definition: faith means you don't care about truth — and how this blocks evangelism

Why We Can't Agree on What Faith Is and What We Can Learn From It. 00:28:12 – 00:29:12

Examining an extreme atheist definition of faith

Michael J. Hooper defined faith as "believing something to be true when you have absolutely no confirmation of that truth, nor do you care." Mike calls this the nastiest possible view of faith and argues it makes meaningful evangelism impossible — if non-believers assume Christians don't even care about truth, the conversation cannot begin.

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