2006-11-22 09:59:09 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thank you, benevolent FLP. Thank you for illuminating my mind to the truth that rationality is inherently critical of faith because faith is non-rational. Oh, enlightened one, teach me thy ways, that I might truly learn how to debase and criticize others.
2006-11-22 10:04:56 · answer #1 · answered by Kevin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is a funny thing. By it's very nature, it means to believe in something, act upon that belief, even though we have no evidence or proof that it is real or true. We all practice faith at times. I have faith that the Bungee cord will not break when I jump. We practice faith when we meet a new dating partner, don't know them well, but think they might be a person worth seeing again.
Ok... well this is how I think when I ponder...
2006-11-22 10:11:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It isn't rational at all to believe in something intangible and unproven for thousands of years, but rational thinking is for math and science. Faith is the most widely-used, foolproof form of hope. People delve into relgion so there's hope to cling on to, hope that no matter how much of a hell this world seems like, that dying is not something to be afraid of.
2006-11-22 10:04:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Faith isn't meant to be rational. Its an intuitive or spiritual process and functions from a different part of a person then their sense of reason. So if somebody tries to argue for faith with reason they might not really know much about faith and are probably instead talking about belief.
"Belief" is the foundation of religion, "Faith" is the foundation of spirituality.
(In my opinion).
2006-11-22 10:03:11 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And I think it really depends on what you do with "Faith" as to whether or not it is rational. If your friend never told you that he/she hears voices, yet still was a rational person... you wouldn't think twice about that person. So, again, it depends on what you DO with it, that makes it rational or not.
2006-11-22 12:39:31 · answer #5 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 13:59:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rationality will keep you from seeing what is really going on. Faith isn't rational, the spirit world isn't rational..but it makes perfect sense.
2006-11-22 10:10:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who am I to rationalize what God has said. Some answers you have recieved are from people who put bitterness in front of truth. Who use blind eyes to see the light. Who need to understand that the earth belongs to the devil along with human thought. Gods word cleanses the thought and gives us a chance to return to him and put the Devil behind us. Unforturnately many or us fall, many times. But you know, Christ took the robber on the cross with him when he acended to heaven. He that believes but has not seen shall be saved! Why should God have to prove anything to one who believes in himself and nothing else!
2006-11-22 10:08:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Faith is one of the things you cannot escape.
You either have faith in God (or gods), or you have faith (trust) in science (or as Carl Sagan would put it, Science) and reason.
You have to have faith in something. It is not possible to not trust in something.
Even the scientists trust in science, and their basic statements about science and the axioms of science are religious in nature and faith-filled in scope.
2006-11-22 10:06:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The placebo effect is documented as real. Faith.
2006-11-22 10:11:16 · answer #10 · answered by DREAMER 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋