>Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:25:40 -0700
>From: David McFadzean <david@lucifer.com>
>Subject: Re: virus: Faith and Reason
>
>At 09:58 AM 3/16/99 -0500, Reed Konsler wrote:
>
>>Faith, too. Turn the other cheek. You see faith as a source of
>>violence...I see it as a check on violence, as is reason.
>
>What if turning the other cheek is not an evolutionarily
>stable strategy?
What if it is?
>>What is ever entirely apparent? What is obvious to me
>>is clearly not to you, no matter how hard I try to make
>>it so. Only the infinite patience in faith and the faith
>>that we are the same despite our semantics asuages my
>>existential frustration.
>
>Yes, maybe I am as dense you as imply. To borrow from
>Richard, what are some other possibilities?
That I'm off my rocker...confused, infected by an insane mind virus and spouting complete nonsense.
Can you admit the same possibility about yourself?
>>Every coin has two sides. Reason is the interrogator,
>>the shuffler, the hybridizer, the thinker. Faith is the
>>advocator, the defender, and the delineator. Since we
>
>I would say that Reason is (also) the advocator,
>the defender, and the delineator
Good for you. If I said faith was all those things, could you accept that...or do you insist that I must always use your words to mean what you think?
>>cannot know anything for certian every exposition,
>>even Richard Dawkins's is an expression of faith...in
>>the power of human reason if not in the power if God.
>>When we deliniate, defend, advocate...when we stand
>>resolute...these are all acts of faith.
>
>Given what I said above how are faith and reason different
>in your view, if at all?
Reason questions, faith answers.
Reed
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