Question: Why do we need faith at all? Pragmatically speaking, faith can have positive effects on one's psyche, and even just that alone can justify the concept, but why do we need to build upon that faith? Can't we just accept the positive effect that it give us, that it gives us a sense of comfort, and dispense with the mechanics?
We build upon knowledge because it's grounded and tied to empirically verifiable and testable theses, but to live on rational leaps of faith and expecting those leaps to be as true as what is directly in front of us can lead to abstractions. Granted, it's not as bad as the divine command theory that extremists abide by, but it's still an unaccountable form. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
