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Understanding the placebo and feeling its effects are two very different things, with what are we to replace the comfort of religion?
More television? Faster food? Greater consumption?
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How about the simple recognition that there is no comfort to be had? The world is a cold, empty place, and all your songs and dances don't matter.
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As a species most of us must have a need for this
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I think you might be confusing biological and chemical dependencies for philosophical answers. The crack head feels comfort from smoking some crack, but that doesn't mean crack is the answer to life's troubles.
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Rather, reason points out its own limits, and shows that faith (and not just religious faith) is necessary.
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No, I'll certainly admit that reason and science haven't answered all questions, but in the absence of such answers we don't have to substitute "faith". Why can't you people just accept that we don't know those things yet. Speculate all you want, write great fiction books hypothesizing what may be. But when you begin to allow those speculations to control your actions you are following the path of the insane.
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For Kierkegaard, reason can be used to point out the limitations of an ethical life, and that what is necessary for an ethical life is a religious life, but it can't get us to a religious life. For that, we need the 'leap of faith'. But in neither example is faith opposed to reason.
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Which of course assumes that some particular ethical life is a good thing, or that there are such things as good and evil.
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Some will find. Who? Those who seek. Those whose hearts are set on finding him and who follow the clues
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Bob: So in order to find god I have to accept that he exists?
Nick: Yes.
Bob: Well, how can I accept that he exists?
Nick: Because I told you so.
Bob: Oh, ok, well how did you find him?
Nick: I accepted that he exists.
Bob: Oh, ok, well how did you accept that he exists?
Nick: Jim told me.