Subject: Re: Faith vs Fact leadership
The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence."

Even better if the belief is in something that you just know can't possibly be true! With apologies to Twain:

"There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school boy who said, Faith is believing what you know ain't so." -- Following the Equator, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar, Mark Twain