One can easily compare and contrast the idea of “faith” and the idea of “belief” by simply looking their definitions up in a dictionary. I will explain the two concepts, however, because some people – for whatever reason – question the importance of dictionaries and their place in an intellectual environment. First and foremost, all faiths qualify as beliefs, but not all beliefs are faith. If this is confusing, it follows the same logic behind the following statement: “all boys are people, but not all people are boys.” It is hierarchical, in a sense. The only way a belief can be categorized as strictly faith is a lack of evidence in the belief. This is not to say that no proof in a belief means it cannot be true; Einstein predicted the presence
