Hi Peter.
FBE is
faith-based epistemology. Saying someone has one means you are essentially stating that: A person with a FBE claims to know things about the world based on faith. Not evidence. It is not the same as having an opinion. Opinions are relative and subjective. Knowledge claims are absolute, objective. Making a knowledge claim without evidence to support such a claim is having a FBE.
Faith: pretending to know things you don't know.
Faith claims are knowledge claims.
Epistemology:
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that focuses on how we come to knowledge, what knowledge is, and what processes of knowing the world are reliable. Conclusions one comes to as the result of an epistemological process are knowledge claims. A knowledge claim is an assertion of truth.
Faith: pretending to know things you don't.
God works in mysterious ways.
I am pretending to know that god works in mysterious ways.
My faith is true for me.
Pretending to know things I don't know is true for me.
Why should people stop having faith if it helps them get through the day?
Why should people stop pretending to know things they don’t know if it helps them get through the day?
Faith and hope are not synonyms.
One can hope for anything or place one’s trust in anyone or anything. This is not the same as claiming to know something. To hope for something admits there’s a possibility that what you want may not be realized. For example, if you hope your stock will rise tomorrow, you are not claiming to know your stock will rise; you want your stock to rise, but you recognize there’s a possibility it may not. Desire is not certainty but the wish for an outcome.
FBE - Faith-based epistemology as opposed to a reason-based epistemology -
RBE.
