27 Jun '05 20:13>
Originally posted by thesonofsaulno. you are clearly either not good at following my train of thought (that could be my problem) or not very good at putting it into words (your problem). at this point, i am not sure which it is, so i will state my position yet again very plainly:
Let me make sure I have your train of thought down. According to you, faith in the Christian God is unfathomable therefore faith is untenable. I'm sure you logic experts out there can show us how this is a fallacy.
And there is reason to believe that everyone, or a good many people anyway to avoid the universal, not only have faith but practice fa ...[text shortened]... yone (or most everyone) uses it.
Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
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faith entails abandoning reason. while this may be comforting, there is no reason to think that it is beneficial. in fact, the mere observation that faith abandons reason leads me to believe there are clearly better alternatives, since faith entails an inherent separation from knowledge, as i already pointed out.
this may be a stretch, but it sounds to me like you are just trying to rationalize why you choose faith, being that the fact that it simply makes your life more comfortable is clearly not a good justification in and of itself.
i also think the chess analogy is not very good. people make rational moves based on their capacity to reason through lines of play. and people have blundered games away by going with their gut.