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Originally Posted by qprogeny79
yeah, i meant "reason" as opposed to religious edict and divine command. i'll agree that there can be a certain dogmatic arrogance, especially among philosophers and those in the humanities, that causes people not to even consider other opinions before dismissing them out of hand. but this is still the age of reason in that the intellectual prerequisites for science and the investigation of reality with a view to drawing deductive or inductive conclusions based on the objective evidence have been satisfied -- my point was that you kind of have to wonder why those who are surrounded with such abundant evidence of the efficacy of reason would instead choose to follow its antithesis. (i believe reason and faith are antithetical; for that comment i feel a debate coming. . . .)
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I think religion has been debated enough, nobody really wants to. Everyone has their opinions on this board, and its not going to change.
I don't think reason is completely antithetical to faith. Part of being reasonable is accepting how much you don't know and will never know. In that sense of reason, believing in God and the supernatural is perfectly reasonable. Although some religious dogmas are very unreasonable.