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Re: CHAT: another new language to check out

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 17:05
Adam Walker wrote:

>--- And Rosta <a.rosta@...> wrote: > -- a kind of > > >>elective >>blindness to Reason, akin in nature to religious >>Faith? >> >>--And. >> >> >> > > >And, I find this highly offensive. Faith is not >"elective blindness to Reason". Reason and Faith are >two parts of the same whole. I have nothing more to >say on this topic, but you have dramaticly diminished >yourself in my estimation with this one rude slander. > > >
While I am religious, I'm going to say that you're both wrong. Faith is not blindness to reason, but reason is not integrated in any way to Faith. In some ways, Faith can be seen as the antithesis of Reason - that is, rather than being based on reason, it is formed around blind trust. Something that, in my opinion, is quite admirable, in some ways. However, faith is also not 'blindness to reason'. Not by definition, at any rate. Faith can, in some circles, be blind to reason, but there are also large sections that are not. For instance, belief in the existence of a God is not inherently irrational. It may be without basis(something I rather disagree with, but that's an other argument), but it is not irrational. Damn, I seem to have violated the no-cross, no-crown rule. But I think it's forgivable, because I'm not advocating anything. But one point - getting offended at something is not neccesary. Ever. It just creates problems.

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