Is "Faith" the answer to all difficult questions about religion? If so, do you think this is sensible?
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huruey
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Faith has to be the ultimate answer to the unanswerable, don't you think? There are some things which are impossible to prove, religious belief is full of such mysteries. Either we dismiss the whole religious thing as nonsense or we accept what the rational brain finds unacceptable. Faith may be a necessary part of humanity, perhaps it helps us survive some of life's worst blows? As to whether it's 'sensible'then you are appealing to the rational and the answer would have to be no. But as I said before, faith doesn't come from the same place, it's not stored in that part of our brain. But what's wrong with the irrational? We have that facility so it follows there must be a function for it?
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That's a good question. Personally I feel that faith is there to make small leaps. Watson and Crick had faith they would find the structure of DNA - and they did (though some would say with a lot of unearned luck and a few dirty tricks). It's one of the things that helped them through long hours and frustrating setbacks. - As for big questions like How did life come to be so diverse? or How did the universe come to be and where is it going? ... I don't think so. Those are better answered with study, observation, rational inquiry and all that lot. - With personal questions like Why am I here? Well... that's personal and up to the individual to find what gives him/her the most satisfying answer.
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"Faith" can be a very dangerous thing to just apply to anything difficult - especially when you begin to use it to fly in the face of the obvious. eg: "We're about to crash into that pole!" "The steering is working, have faith." "No, we're going to crash." "No we're not. Have some fai......." Pretty simple example - but makes a point.
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