Is there a "logical" component (small as it may be) to "faith"?

Question

For instance: Is it not logic that dictates that any faith based on a Transdimensional Rabbit, as the creator, is most likely nothing more than a fantastic fairytale? … Do you think I can start a tax-exempt church based on my faith in a Transdimensional Rabbit?

Answer 1

No. Get a real job you dirty hippy.

Answer 2

Ok... to start off with... the technical answer to your question is PROBABLY NOT.
You need to redefine this question because the logic is really defined by some sort of psychological understanding, as much of faith is taught as. (study of ourselves) You need to really go back and find a better word other than logic because you made no "reason"-ing argument in your example.

If you are looking for an example of something other than the scientology scene... Look up the Flying spaghettie monster faith

i think it was 200,000 people actually believe that a flying spaghetti monster created the universe. Moronic... but the science sector has used this faith based system as an argument against Intelligent design vs. evolution (just another name for the creationist vs evolution argument all over again)

Creationism whether scientific or not is really a philosophical question (cannot be proven by science PERIOD)
and for all practical purposes... the creation of the universe really doesnt matter. But i have more of a dualistic approach to things.

Faith is not a a fairy tale... its a psychological fountain of knowledge that (when seen under the microscope) is really a mirror.

Faith doesnt come in a book its in the heart, and let whatever transdimentional rabbit float your boat ;)

goodluck,
M

Answer 3

I think it might be more the other way around. Think of it this way. Any logical conclusion must be developed from "known" prerequisites. Those prerequisites are, in turn, the logical conclusions of "known" statements that came before. Traced back far enough, however, this process will break down and leave us only with faith that what we base our conclusions on is "known".

For example, I can perceive this keyboard with my senses and logically conclude that it is there but that logical conclusion is based on the assumption that my senses are a reliable source for gathering knowledge. This is something that I cannot logically prove. Thus I am left with two options. I can either a) conclude that absolutely nothing can ever be know or b) have faith that what I perceive is real.

Answer 4

I don't see why you couldn't. Scientology is based on the science fiction writings of L. Ron Hubbard. Thus if you wrote a book about a transdimensional rabbit and got enough attendance I'm sure you could.

Answer 5

Yes, there is logic to faith. In fact, logic is entirely based on faith. For example, here's a common logical excercise. "All Ravens are Black. All Ravens are Birds. Is it true that all Birds are Black?" For the purposes of the exercise, you set aside what you actually know about ravens, birds, and the color black; you treat them as simply labels and accept on faith that the first two statements are true so that you can look at the problem logically.

By the way, the correct answer is "No, that is a fallacy. It would be true that Some Birds are Black."

Answer 6

There's very little logic (if any) at first. But once you actually believe something the logic starts to show.
I'm of the opinion that it takes as much faith to believe in evolution as it does creationism. Both are logical, once you believe them, but it takes faith to believe that something you've never seen proof of is true. Whether it's a scientist or an ancient text telling you what to believe is beside the point.

To M (the guy below me): no one actually believes in the flying spagetti monster. It's a joke.

Answer 7

I don't think there is. I took a philosophy of religion class, the prof was an atheist turned theist, yet still holds many different thoughts on religion. It took him 4 years of graduate classes to deduce the existance of some sort of creator (his specialties are religion and science - use to be an Elec. Eng.).

Anyway, most people blindly believe in things because: They are swayed easily and/or need something to believe in for comfort. People don't like to find things out for themselves. Most people don't care about "the truth".

And yes, I think you could start a tax-exempt religion. It's not any more crazy than Scientology. And if there's punch and cake, I'm there!

Answer 8

Why, yes!

Spok used "logic" because in the 60s TV world, it would not be PC (acceptable) to say he always tried to figure out what was the right thing to do.

How do we know what's "right"?

Conscience, which is also intuition. Latin: with knowing and teaching from within. Jesus said "the kingdom of heaven is within you". Zen says just watch and the truth will show itself.

So, since faith is of the heart and logic is of the mind and both are suspect, since we all know there is a deceiving virus in the system, one must stand back and be objective, unswayed, unmoved, and the truth will reveal itself.

Answer 9

No, there is nothing logical about faith. However, there may be something logical in how you plan to start a church and/or religion to become wealthy.

Answer 10

I'm sure you could.

It worked for L. Ron Hubbard and the church of scientology. That church was probably formed over a bet about wether he could create his own religion and have people follow it.