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New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute cover image

Q&A on God and Religion with Aaron Smith and Mike Mazza

New Ideal, from the Ayn Rand Institute

CHAPTER

What Is Faith?

Frida Ghitis: Faith is the commitment to a belief in the absence of evidence or rational proof. She says it's not a means by which you acquire or reach understanding, but a way of holding and maintaining beliefs that don't meet standards of knowledge. Ghitis: It pushes people to then isolate those beliefs from their other knowledge like to refuse to integrate them.

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