Enough. i'll say it once more. you're making my point for me, save that you don't recognize it.
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Faith and emotion do not make freedom, morality or philosophy exist. All of these words are words whose definitions match real phenomenon that we experience.
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That is EXACTLY, with NO difference, how i experience the divine. Objective experiences create an idea. Thus, i request respect for that-faith is not a delusion, a meme gone wrong, a mental defect, or any other perjorative.
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If emotions were taken away we would still experience the world around us and its reality would be no less questionable.
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Hunh? Not only is it not possible to completely sever a person from emotion, it would hardly produce the same experience of reality. You might see the Mona Lisa, but you would simply see a human face. It would cease to convey meaning beyond a reasonable reproduction of human likeness. Wouldn't you say then that some of the reality of that painting is only visible to human emotion?
I'm using the terms good and bad faith, since there appears to be normative judgements in your analysis that have no basis in reality. You seem to posit to the existance of freedom or love with out question...but will adamantly deny the possibility of a similar existance that's labeled "God." You give examples of delusional farmers to make the debate about whether faith is crazy or not...but i doubt you would give such a reaction to someone who told you that they have faith in human reason.
Faith can be, by your own words, be a rational hope in somethign that is true. That's all i'm out to show.