(May 2, 2018 at 5:53 am)Grandizer Wrote:(May 1, 2018 at 11:20 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Not William James! But you have a point. Perhaps a distinction needs to be made because the term "rational theist" can mean two things: EITHER a theist who is capable of reason OR a theist who has come to be a theist because of logical reasoning. The two are, in fact, distinct, and my post may have equivocated there.
Ok, but then, most theists are capable of reason, including fundamentalists.
Doh! Very true. What I meant to say (instead of capable of reason) was one who respects reason as a faculty which can lead one to truth and is willing to subject propositions about reality to critical thinking. Lol. I don't know where "capable of reason" came from. Maybe it's because sometimes I wonder.