RE: Any Theists on AF, I Challenge You to a Debate on the Existence of God
December 29, 2014 at 9:35 am
(December 26, 2014 at 12:27 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Faith necessitates reason. No one believes without reason. Same as no one disbelieves without reason. Those reasons may be spurious, but they're reasons to disbelieve nonetheless (that last bit is jest)
You can tell just how far I've waded into this thread by how far back this quote goes. So maybe my point has already been made. Regardless, I wonder whether faith really necessitates reason or just rationalization. If the latter, then religious belief is far from unique. All of us embrace values which are primary enough that they can only be reasoned from, not to. For these, all one can do is put the best spin possible on them but they never rise to the level of a reasoned position IMO.