A response to John Wisdoms article, "Gods"
Date Submitted: 01/12/2004 00:57:12
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 7 pages (1901 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 7 pages (1901 words)
"Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to." This quote captures in many ways what Wisdom is trying to get across in his essay about religion. Religion, and the belief in it, cannot be logically justified in the same way the law of gravity can. It cannot be proven through a scientific experiment, or deduced through a set of premises. Science has dominated our acceptance of "facts" for many centuries, which has resulted …
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…gotten in the way of a proper explanation. This concept is very simple once you get it, it is like having a revelation in that once its there, its there. One last remark I felt noteworthy is that in the definitions of both rational and logical the word reasonable is used, and in the definition of reasonable, both rational and logical is used. Does this circular pattern indicate that what is reasonable is truly indefinable?
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