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Faith and confidence
IMO, the Intro needs to be trimmed down and simplified. The pious intellectual moralizing can be put elsewhere. Our primary readership is children. We should encourage trust in God, not turn it into an intellectual exercise (which granted, many children as well as adults, will never understand). [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]</sup> 18:22, 8 November 2019 (EST)
IMO, the Intro needs to be trimmed down and simplified. The pious intellectual moralizing can be put elsewhere. Our primary readership is children. We should encourage trust in God, not turn it into an intellectual exercise (which granted, many children as well as adults, will never understand). [[User:RobSmith|RobS]]<sup>[[User talk:RobSmith|De Plorabus Unum]]</sup> 18:22, 8 November 2019 (EST)
==Faith and confidence==
I like the way this article begins by saying that faith goes beyond belief. This is a big improvement over the work of [[Richard Dawkins]], who writes faith off as "belief without evidence", but does not point out that true faith means more than that, as [[Paul Tillich]] notes in "The New Being". I wonder whether this article should include reference to the meaning of the word "confidence". Confidence means "with faith", coming from the Latin words "con" (with) and "fideo" (faith). [[User:Carltonio|Carltonio]] ([[User talk:Carltonio|talk]]) 11:56, 20 June 2020 (EDT)