Comments by henryw

1. Do you have to read up on leprechology before disbelieving in them?

Comment #70816 by henryw on September 17, 2007 at 2:19 am

Faith different from belief? Surely to believe something implausible on no evidence is to believe it 'on faith'? And to have faith that something is real is to believe it to be real? So the two words are synonymous - or have I missed something?

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