(September 23, 2020 at 2:37 am)Belacqua Wrote:(September 22, 2020 at 11:58 pm)Sal Wrote: [...] There's no action or doing that faith does, that can't be matched in greater measure by reason.
OK, this is a different claim. First you said you hadn't been told what faith does. Now you say you have been told what faith does, but reason does it better.
I'm not sure why you're contrasting faith and reason, since the religious people agree that reason is essential to faith. They say that faith is the exercise of reason in controlling emotion and impulse.
Have you read John's posts at all? You could respond to what he says at some point.
You still don't get it. What does faith do, that reason doesn't?
It's all dancing around a central claim any apostate of any faith intuitively feels about the nature of faith itself.
Do the chachacha some more, fool.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman