Quote is from Crane Brinton
2006-10-13 10:50:51 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Disagree. I don't have to actively believe I'm experiencing skepticism to actually experience it. I don't have to say to myself "Self, you are experiencing skepticism. You believe that, don't you, self?" Skepticism is a tool used for critical thinking, not a rejection of reason and logic in favor of blind acceptance, but I can see the comparison you're trying to make.
2006-10-13 10:52:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I disagree. I think that a healthy skepticism is often a symptom of intellectual logic, since part of logic is being able to discover implicit assumptions and test them. In this case, you could say that someone places their 'faith' in logic, not in doubt.
As for someone who doubts everything, with or without reason, I think it's more accurate to say that this person has faith in nothing. It's a paradoxical statement that equates an extreme negative to a positive. There are many such paradoxes around religion, like God creating the impossibly heavy rock.
I'm also reluctant to use the word faith. If you analyze it, it seems to mean what's intended, but something about it rings untrue. I'm more likely to believe that believing in a constant is faith, whereas trusting a process, such as the reasoning process, would better be described by a different word.
2006-10-13 18:12:08 · answer #2 · answered by Phil 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disagree. Faith is to believe, not doubt, therefore to believe in doubt is not faith. Unless Crane Brinton has another concept of faith or was smoking that $hit again.
2006-10-13 17:55:38 · answer #3 · answered by odacrem69 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I see your point. I'll have to look up Crane Brinton on thinkexist.com. That's an excellent site for quotes.
I never take myself too seriously that I can't make fun of myself. If I tell my friends I have faith they will belly laugh.
2006-10-13 17:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Disagree. I don't view doubt as a form of faith. Doubt is being skeptical, it's not having faith In or About something.
2006-10-13 23:12:51 · answer #5 · answered by Kithy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To be constantly skeptical is simply to be constantly skeptical. It doesn’t necessarily require a belief system. Some people are simply negative. It’s not that they believe they should doubt, they simply select the option that is most negative.
2006-10-13 18:12:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Disagree, being skeptical requires no faith at all. It's having faith that blinds skepticism.
2006-10-13 17:56:13 · answer #7 · answered by buttercup 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Reads like rhetorical nonsense to me. Skepticism isn't a faith, it's a tool. It's a tool for testing the truth. And it's not about doubt, it's about applying reason and testing alleged facts to see if they are, indeed, facts.
2006-10-13 17:53:09 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Being skeptical is healthy, and it's not a form of faith. We should all seek the truth and not follow what we have not investigated.
2006-10-13 17:54:45 · answer #9 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Skepticism is a form of devil worship and therefore you are condemmed at the gates of pearly to be admitted into the kingdom come.
Remembreance that In sooth I know nothing but spirtualist fools eat freedom.
2006-10-13 17:54:05 · answer #10 · answered by Sid Snot 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋