Is Reason better for you then blind Faith?

Question

I say that Philosophy is undeniably good for you, it deepens your intellect, strenghtens you and invigorates you full of reason. Not longer are you solely reliant on blind faith, but now your blind faith is surpassed by your reason. Your faith is subject to your reason,the best part of your conscious.


I, as you can see favour reason (acquired through experience, study and contemplation) over blind faith. Have I accurately described of how appropriate reason is.

What are you comments on reason over blind faith?

Also, why do you think that reason is 'better for you' then mere blind faith?

Kind Regards

Answer 1

I'm Buddhist, so I clearly also favour philosophical reason over blind faith.

I didn't believe in an afterlife until I saw it, and met a few people who did as well. So I guess I don't believe, but I'm fairly sure I know.

Reason is much better because blind faith has led to intolerance and injustice. The most reasonable people in the world have been Philosophists; the least reasonable have been Theists.

Answer 2

Here's some reason for you. None of the people on here who claim to be atheists are infact true atheists. For a true atheist, there is no true right, and no true wrong. You will die just like everyone else, you will disappear into the past. You do not matter. What you do does not matter. You are simply the product of atoms banging into eachother. You are neither responsible for the good you do or the evil, though neither of these really exsist. Yet, these "atheists" sit and argue and dispute with people who are trying to believe that there is some sort of truth in the world. They are not true atheists. True atheists could care less for what anyone says. We are all nothing, and to nothing we shall return.

Answer 3

I prefer a blend of both, simply because that makes me feel more peaceful, and I have to live in my skin.

I think I can believe in God and not believe the creation story, the Noah story, and myriad other stories in the Bible, simply because the reasonable side of me questions the motives of everyone who ever translated it, and of the council that first sat down to determine what text stayed and what went.

But sometimes I need something to hold on to when nothing makes sense, and at those times faith gives me comfort.

That said, I fully acknowledge that what works for me may not work for someone else, and you'll never catch me force-feeding my philosphy as Absolute Truth. (I'm not implying you are, for the record. I'm just seeing a lot of that these days.)

Kind regards to you as well.

Answer 4

Blind faith is still something to hold on to. Of course reason is the better of the two in all cases. But to have no blind faith....is like closing a door. Sometimes a little faith is all you have.

Answer 5

although your question sounds trustworthy it has really insult extra to it. how are you going to're saying, "undergo in concepts, scripture advanced from sumerian and egyptian mythology"? we do not "undergo in concepts" that in any respect because we do not have self belief that. you don't need us to cite scripture yet we've self belief this is the note of God. How can we no longer use it? It baffles me that Atheists attempt to make us reason issues out on their element after all of us comprehend that there is a larger element. the religion I have has been substantiated by ability of the undeniable actuality that has been printed to me. it isn't blind faith. I have considered Him operating in my existence and the lives of others. attempt telling my father who change right into a POW in a eastern detention center camp that there is not any God. He prayed even as he had beri beri, black water fever, malaria and dysentery. each and anytime the Lord pulled him by ability of. i can furnish you with plenty such circumstances the position God worked in this style of way even though it would want to take too lengthy. there is one problem although that no you'll remove from me and that is the peace that He on my own provides you. It surpasses all information. thanks. :)

Answer 6

This is just for Isaiah.
If you stood on a train track and saw a train coming towards you, reason would tell you that the train will hit you so you will move out of the way and stay alive.
Your faith will tell you that god will save you so you will stand there and you will die.
Reason just saved you faith didn`t

Answer 7

Well i believe there's a time for reason and a time for faith.
Some ppl believe Christians live their lives by 'blind faith' this isn't true -- what happens is - when one has an experience with God, you then know without doubt God is alive and you know the truth - as you walk with Him and get to know Him - you then start to walk in faith, that what God says is going to happen will happen....
There's a time for everything - and there's a place for reason - why should there only be one or the other?

Kind Regards to you
Shalom

Lix - great answer : )

Answer 8

Good point. Of course Christian faith is not blind faith but a reasoned faith. "For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities— his eternal power and divine nature— have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."

Answer 9

Kind like asking, "What's better: A Klondike Bar or a sharp stick in the eye?"

I agree with everything you said.

Comparing the two, I would simply define faith as belief without any evidence, and ask people if this is how they want to govern their lives?

Answer 10

Faith is blind .It requires no proof.Faith and belief are related.If you have got proof ,it is truth and you have to accept truth(not mere belief).Even reasoning requires some element of belief.When you all living organism developed or evolved from single cell amoeba,still the question remains who created amoeba?