(March 4, 2013 at 9:30 am)sparky Wrote: Going back to the question "Why is faith important?" Because it is the only way someone can believe something with no evidence that is completely irrational and illogical
Like praise, perpetual identity, right and wrong, existence of other humans and life, value of life....none of these have "evidence" either scientifically or philosophically but I think most humans will agree they are rational.
Also the way I like to look at it, is that it's a mistake, faith in religion, but it's not baseless. It's mistake motivated by a lot of factors, but no one can simply believe out of no reason at all.
There is something in the human mind that makes it seem like the religion is true, and that their experience of the holy texts or the philosophy of religion makes it true.
Is it completely illogical? Well I don't think so. I think their is partial reasoning in it.
It's like a person doing a math test. He may get an answer wrong but it's not necessarily all the steps he went through were wrong.
