In article <8E2BB6D7Fthecheezemanearthlin@news.earthlink.net>,

thecheezeman@earthlink.net (Albert Yi) wrote:

> Just some personal viewpoints on some of the sins\virtues:

>

> Lust

> A lot of people mentioned things like "Mutual lust". I don't

> think this is what was originally meant by the sin, more like

> nymphomania or something similar.

And you know this _how_?

> Faith

> I don't understand why everyone automatically condemns faith,

> almost as if you associate it only with god. What of faith in

> one's spouse, one's friends, one's family? Are we to distrust

> everyone instead?

Faith does not equal trust, doofus.

Certainly I trust my wife; I have very good reasons to believe that she

places my welfare just about on the level of her own - this has been borne

out many times in the past. I place emotional trust in her as well. I

feel that the trust is well placed, again this has been borne out by

experience.

Of course, I don't have any expectation that she will do things that

aren't humanly possible, nor any that are totally inexplicable. I have

no "faith" that our relationship will always remain as it is - I merely

work at doing my part to ensure that it will.

I have similar, but not as deep trust in my friends and family. There is

no faith involved.