So-Called Faith

Post date: Feb 14, 2021 9:15:59 PM

Embracing superstitions: ancient guesswork and myths bonded together by the crazy glue of their faith...

It equates to being merely gullible, superstitious, unquestioning.‎..

"Faith can and should dispense with reason..."

What sets science and the law apart from religion is that nothing is expected to be taken on faith... We’re encouraged to ask whether the evidence actually supports what we’re being told to believe — or what we grew up believing — and we’re allowed to ask whether we’re hearing all the evidence or just some small prejudicial part of it... If our beliefs aren’t supported by the evidence, then we’re encouraged to alter our beliefs...

To acquire faith, you must become as a little child... But, however it is expressed, the point remains: in deliberately cultivating non-rational belief, one would be suppressing one's critical faculties...

Of course it will be said that to do this is to reject only a false reason, a superficial understanding, in order to attain a true wisdom, a deeper understanding... But to say this is to beg the question... We have as yet no reason to suppose that this 'true wisdom' is anything but a hopeful delusion, a selfdeception... Nor could we come to have any reason to suppose this except by exercising those despised critical faculties...

"Humans multi-times do not make decisions based on facts... Facts alone do not change their view consciously..." ~Yogisms~‎