[MD] Faith/Skepticism

[Michael Poloukhine]

> Ron:
> I mean, please explain and support your prior statement:
> "Religion doesn't justify itself with reason, Reason does that to 
> religion as reflex."



I was responding to your statement that:

"Religion rests soley on reason in terms of justification."

If anything, you need to explain *that* statement. 

Religion rests on *faith* in terms of justification, not on reason. Faith 
conditionally precedes reason. End of story.

At least, it would be the end, but for Reason's own presumption of legitimate 
supremacy in all things cognitive and its self serving demand for justification of 
all things under that presumptive umbrella as well as, in its boundless 
arrogance, those outside it.

Hence "Reason's reflex." 

Reason doesn't know how to approach anything but through reason. Religion is 
in the realm of faith and in that sense outside the bounds of reason when it 
comes to a justification on reason's terms. Reason was born in contradiction 
and opposition to faith and religion, and in short; one can *never* as such justify 
Faith on Reason's terms BY DESIGN.

Its like proving a woman is not a witch by drowning her and calling it just 
because *you've* decided witches float.

MP
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"Don't believe everything you think."