Great words mistranslated to mean sentimentalism and reverence to ignorance

I found a great resource today as I was learning about the origins of words. The following is an excerpt from Hope and the scientific method

Hope is not something wished-for but something worked-toward. Hope is a calm and unceremonious comprehension of something that is known to exist at the end of a process or path. Hoping involves no yearning or panting or supplication but rather knowledge, reason and calculation. Hope is not an emotional thing; it's a science thing. 

The Scientific Method is a two-step program that demands that (1) verifiable observations must be explained by a falsifiable but unobservable logic system that produces that what is observed, and (2) the derived system must be able to predict the outcome of a subsequent experiment. That second part is hope. 

The two-step scientific method wasn't formulated in snazzy modern terms until the scientific revolution of the 17th century but the gist of it has been known and revered since deep antiquity. The author of the letter to the Hebrews says it so: "Certainty is: (2) the knowledge of things hoped for, and (1) the confirmation of things not seen" (HEBREWS 11:1).

Later in the article, the writer brings the three eternal qualities of Faith, Hope, and Love:

Paul once wrote of three great things, namely faith, hope and love (1 CORINTHIANS 13:13), which in modern times have become synonymous with sentimentalism and reek of the reverence of ignorance. "Faith" came to denote docile compliance to religious, and thus political authority. "Hope" promised a blissful afterlife that would follow a life of docile compliance. And "love" urged people to stay calm and docile and suppress the urge to rise up against corporate larceny and evil governments. When Paul wrote, however, these things meant something else:

• Faith is the calm understanding of the invisible system that governs the observable. It's covered by the first part of the Scientific Method — see our article on πιστις (pistis) for more on faith (Faith - persuasion and belief ).

• Hope is the calm understanding of what the system inevitably will bring about next. Hope is covered by the second part of the Scientific Method.

• Love (but agape, not philos) is the formation of convention, that is the formation of a medium in which all people can express their unique views and be wholly understood and accepted by people who do not share those views — see our article on αγαπη (agape) for more on this (Why love (agape) makes the world go round - Lessons in love from modern physics).