Talk Heathen 10.32 with Scott Dickie and Jamie the Blind Limey

In today's episode of Talk Heathen, Scott Dickie and Jamie the Blind Limey tackle the question: Is faith a virtue? The hosts dive into definitions, infinite regress, and the nature of causality.

Donald in LA, an atheist, asks if faith can be a virtue depending on how it's defined. The hosts explore whether trust and faith are the same thing. If faith means belief without evidence, how is that virtuous? The conversation shifts to infinite regress and whether the universe needs a first cause. Donald presents the concept of an unactualized actualizer—something that causes change without being changed itself. But why assume this actualizer is conscious or a god? If everything needs a cause, what caused the actualizer? The hosts challenge whether invoking infinity solves anything or just pushes the problem back. Does calling something "necessary" make it real, or is this just defining things into existence?

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