As a conclusion from your reply which isn't far fetched from what I'd expected, there is only enough explanation that I can do to cover all the gaps I've missed out. It's impossible for me to explain well of what I know.
Ok but I hope you understand that I won't just take your word for it, I don't think you really do have this 'higher understanding' or whatever you believe it is, so far all you've served up is the usual rhetoric I've encountered now quite a few times even in just this thread.
Somehow I've potrayed myself as a religious kind of person. Well, I'm as much of a scientologist as I am a keen discoverer of beyond this galaxy.
I'm not really interesting in what sort of person you are, I just address your points.
It's kinda disappointing to see you brought up Santa Claus.
It's a good example imo, it gets the point accross and it doesn't have any real flaw... the only complain is usually that 'well we KNOW we made up Santa' or something along those lines. If you'd like, you can instead use the 'teapot atheist' example that is probably nicer.
IMHO though alot of the time there is an objection to using mythical creations in analogy with their 'god' is more that it just upsets people that the analogy is quite close.
That is totally irrelevant and puts no credit for your opinions.
It's not totally irrelevant at all. See above.
It makes me doubt your knowledge in some strange way.
You constantly question my 'knowledge', if I was an illiterate 16 year old mum would you not even consider the arguments I put forward?
I'm not a theist. I dont' believe that there is only one God.
Theist simply means that you believe in a higher being / higher beings. Monotheist means you believe in only one God.
I believe or I've gathered that there are countless levels of civilisations that are more "virtue" than humans in which we call them God.
I had the same sort of idea when I was little... I used to draw pictures and made up an entire little game for myself, drawing men shooting lazers at each other etc. I came up with the idea of there being 'Gods' that humans are aware of, then those people have their God's etc etc etc. So I imagine your idea isn't anything new, not that I believe you said it was. Just a little side-track there
Anyway, as for your claim... I see it as little different from a claim about the existance of God.
Faith. I can't really categorise my believe as faith. Maybe a bit like some facts gathered from one source of teachings and measure things with an abstract formula.
That would be faith in my book, believing in things based off abitary/meaningless rules is basically just believing for the sake of it.
But again, I wouldn't count on that description.
Of course not, we have to keep as vague as we can so that no one can actually challenge our beliefs - if we even have their beliefs we claim we do.
My view of all these was just based on a simple phrase "I don't know".
That's a fine philisophical principle to keep in mind, I do also, but I think it has its limits when applied in some cases.
From the past, I've only considered that whether there is God or not, one's action should only be based on the upcoming and hardship which we shall prepare for.
What are you on about here?
So there is no biased view in my opinions. So therefore, I don't really have the kind of faith that you had in mind.
You don't have to be some brainwashed idiot to become a 'faithful' person, very intelligent people can think about things alot and merely come to the wrong conclusion. Often this can be because they're not examining their own thinking critically enough.
