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JayEdics

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Logic + Faith = What?

It seems to stand that, in my experience, people have a falling out with their respective faiths when they employ some level of logic. Our minds tend to lean more to one than the other. Does faith inherently require a suspending of logic, or can both needs be met simultaneously?

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you have more logic if you have faith-

Logic is more than a tool. Logic contradicts faith. Anything belief worth supporting are supported in logic. Faith in the unexplained is an alternative to logic.

both need can be met.

theatre (as well as the related arts) require a willing suspension of disbelief in order to make the magic work. Some people are more willing than others to suspend the disbelief. Same principle, different words, in my experience.

Faith is, as edelheit said above, illogical; as such of course it requires somewhat of a suspension of logic. But this does not mean it defies logic. It's like going from chess to war. It would make sense to follow the rules: send the foot soldiers before them cavalry; but that doesn't mean a cavalry charge early isn't valid. Of course it does seem as though you should be juxtaposing the principles, but it is oft because you don't that you have the greatest sucess. Moreover, until the point where faith is required - assuming faith picks up where reality leaves off, (in the hope the prior reattaches to the latter) - logic can and should be used. Logic dictates: see then believe; faith dictates: believe then see. It is not logical, it doesn't mean it is invalid. Much in the same way that checkers is not invalid because of chess: they are different, some people find one or the other more difficult or appealing, but in reality they aren't any better - in fact ideally one must master, or at least become adept, at both.

Faith is by definition the belief in what cannot be proven through logic. Great philosophers like Thomas Aquinas posed logic based arguments for the existence of a God, but they all tended to fall short. Faith is illogical, it is what we hope for, not what we have proof of. Although ironically each religion is hoping for often completely different things... so it leaves you wondering...

you get to Rome... if you love to travel and your faith is in a road map that is... on the other hand if your faith is in what Bill O'Reilly says, logically, you are going to die a miserable idiot...

You can work on both faith and logic. I imagine wanting to approach a subject from both ways will force you to not have an answer to certain questions, because the two processes wont agree.

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Logic + Faith = What?