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Originally Posted by Miburo
Are you serious, dude? Seriously? Just read that aloud. You're basically asking "Why is it logical to be logical?" It's logical by virtue of being logical. A=A, 1=1, etc. Come on, man. = /
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How is it logical to take a leap of faith at all though? As we all agree, believing in something that cannot be proven logical is not logical. So isn't logic technically illogical.
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Look, I know the philosophical line of thought you're going by here. Descartes type shit, right? Not really a fan of his, honestly. But whatever. Using that line of thought, nothing can be trusted completely. Even first hand knowledge, because our senses can be tricked. Pretty much nothing is without doubt.
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I want to make it clear this in no way is me trying to prove the point that God is a logical thought. All I am trying to understand is why faith in one thing outweighs faith in another if the leap of faith is totally illogical.
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Sure, that's a neat way of thinking and all, I suppose. But it's completely useless too. What does doubting almost all known knowledge do for us, really? Not a damn thing, and I'm sure you know it. I could use your same exact argument to argue against literally almost any known fact to put a degree of doubt upon it. You're not proving anything though, and you're not making any point at all.
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I understand I am not proving or making a point. I am not really trying to debate.
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Besides, there's a huge difference in having faith in something like, say, the fact that the earth revolves around the sun compared to the a claim that has no credible supporting evidence like there being a magically powerful entity that controls all space and time, and other equally baseless things. That goes far, far beyond the default amount of doubt that is found in all human knowledge. They are in no way comparable.
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How is faith comparable. How is it more logical to take one leap of faith than the other if both require no proving facts to do so.
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No one is saying you can't believe in that stuff. Just that it is illogical. That's all.
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I understand that. BTW it is called skepticism, which is a term that has been butchered by people these days as being someone who questions.