Sometimes Practiacal isn't that Practical

I used to think that the people who would say "If I can't see it, touch it, or feel it then it can't be true." or "I only believe what I can see." were so smart. I thought that they were so practical, and to me it sounded like pure genius. These people demanded proof before they would trust anything. It was a safe way to think, I mean, if you never trust anything until after it's in front of you, you'll never be let down or disappointed. This is the very sort of thinking that will get you no where. It is faithless, believing in nothing but what you have in front of you. The Christian faith is built on faith which according to Hebrews is the evidence of things not seen. There is instance after instance in the Bible where individuals had to put there trust in the unseen. Truly for us who live after Christ's death, faith is required for the basic fact of believing that Christ ever walked the earth, because we surely can not see it. No great or mighty thing came from any man in the Bible that did not have faith. In fact, having no/little faith was the cause of big things not happening. Even in the secular world today the big icons of society were those that had vision of things that could be and worked toward that goal. Sure there are exceptions to that rule, but it would be an exception; as in, more often than not, it is the visionaries that led the way. All this to say that I'm no longer viewing that statement as being smart or practical but rather as being vision less, complacent to a fault, and impractical.