Originally Posted by Brittany
Oh, Kathy, because in order to be a materialist you have to trust that material is eternal or self-creating many people consider that a faith of some kind (because it's not possible to prove). I guess it should be called a "faith" or a "belief system"... unless you use to try to practice mind over matter etc... then I think it usually qualifies as a religion....
But I know many others consider it not to be. That's fine. It was to demonstrate the range of veiws on the issue and how I think all can be discussed just fine.

Brittany, materialsim is not based on faith. Neither is atheism. I recommend that you read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It contains an excellent discussion of these topics.