"Our age is, in especial degree, the age of criticism, and to criticism everything must submit. Religion through its sanctity, and law-giving through its majesty, may seek to exempt themselves from it. But they then awaken just suspicion, and cannot claim the sincere respect which reason accords only to that which has been able to sustain the test of free and open examination."
Immanuel Kant, The Citique of Pure Reason, pg. xi from the first edition.
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Choose Wisely, your eternity depends on it.
Well put, both are important to understanding.
> Faith Vs. Reason... Choose Wisely, your eternity depends on it.
From your other postings I gather you don't have much faith in reason.
I once worked at a public radio station run largely by a group of feminists. One noon hour they hosted a debate on abortion, and the anti-abortion people boycotted it. One of the callers asked why they would want to talk to anyone who disagreed with them, and they couldn't come up with an answer. While I side mostly with the "right to choose" folks, I was really annoyed by this. I wanted to call in and say, "You talk to people who disagree with you because you need to test your beliefs. You may be wrong." I didn't call in. They weren't in a listening frame of mind that day.
All decisions that one makes can be the wrong decision and that is just the chance one has to take. A decision is made with the all of the best that one has.
The beginning of Wisdom is the willingness to consider that you may be mistaken; mistaken in your perceptions, your conclusions and your beliefs - which all things pass through like a filter. [G M Jaron]
I learned a lot here in a very short time. Thanks, Gary.