[neilparikh]

> Belief is a matter of faith

I think you're being a little imprecise with definitions here. I did not use believe to mean "faith", but rather something more like "based on the evidence available, they came to the conclusion that this is the best approach". What other word would you use for this idea, if not believe?

As another example, if I said "I believe that man made climate change is going to be a threat to humans in the next 50 years", would someone really interpret that to mean "I have unquestioning faith in (previous assertion here)" (which is the definition of believe you've used)?

[e5india]

No I know how you meant it but I was indeed precise in how I meant it. I meant specifically that for many of the Libertarian set it is a belief in the theological sense.