And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief of holding on.
To engage with art we have to be willing to be wrong venture outside our psychic comfort zones suspend disbelief and remember that art explores and alters consciousness simultaneously.
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
For many years I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose it seems to me must be the improvement of mankind.
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go 'Oh yeah okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.
The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid lively forcible firm steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief as a smart man called it there isn't even more fraud. After all with no God there's no one to ever call you to account and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.