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Old 04-19-2008, 07:03 PM
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Originally Posted by emptypepsi View Post
Of course. I think the problematic contention here (or at least the implication) is that any other mindset other than the grand leap of faith is somehow unreasonable (which is ridiculous).
I consider faith to have nothing to do with reason at all, not in a negative way, just as a consequence of definition.

Of course you can try questioning the concept of faith with the means of reason, but I think that does not really work as the concept of faith has been created in a way as to lie outside of what can be handled with reason.
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