Quote:Faith and reason decide what is true. What we know to be true by using our reason and what we believe to be true in faith cannot contradict each other. The supernatural gift of divine faith goes beyond reason (although they do not go against reason). It stands by itself as an independent way of knowing something. Yet it is not the same as direct knowledge about something. It is like knowledge because it states that things really are a certain way. Yet it is often uncertain about why things are this way or how they can be this way.
The believer, therefore must continue to think and use reason to answer the objections that reason itself brings up. Faith then is not the result of an argument; it is not caused by reasoning. It is a supernatural gift from God. And yet a lot of reasoning comes before it and continues inside of it.
Translation: Reason tells me my beliefs are bullshit, so i am going to do some convoluted mental gymnastics to tell myself that faith, which is merely the expression of my desire for my beliefs to be true, is a viable source of knowledge.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
