(September 23, 2020 at 9:31 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Faith may, in the end, be capable doing anything that reason can do. That can't make faith equivalent to reason anymore than faith is equivalent to how we think abut chairs, or anymore than a club is equivalent to a missile on account of both leaving bloody smears in the mud.Exactomundo.
Similarly, people being reasonable while they are being faithful won't make faith and reason equivalent anymore than launching a missile while you're clubbing someone to death makes a missile strike and a clubbing equivalent.
The way faith is talked about, it usually is talked as-if it does something we take for granted, like 'trust', 'confidence', 'conviction', even 'belief'. Insofar we're able use cognitive ability, to reason about stuff, where faith functions as a stand-in for that same cognitive ability.
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool." - Richard P. Feynman