Philosophy Now Forum

Fides et Ratio Faith and Reason

Atheism's constant call for "evidence" and condemnation of faith affirms what Beatrice Bruteau writes in The Psychic Grid (a book I hold right up there with Behold the Spirit): “How peculiar our consciousness is! What it craves most, we said, is certainty, and certainty is the absence of alternatives. But surely what our consciousness desires least is despair. And despair also is — the absence of alternatives.”

Clearly, disbelief can be as pathological as belief.

Arising_uk wrote: My point is simple, you claimed the intellect is a mouse upon an emotional elephant with the implication that the elephant is in charge but the mahout works with the elephant and the elephant does, by-and-large what the mouse wills.

Take it up with the scientists whose studies indicate otherwise.

The Inglorious One wrote:Take it up with the scientists whose studies indicate otherwise.

Please post me a link.

Arising_uk wrote:Please post me a link.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion

Lots more out there if you care to look.

If reading is too difficult, there is also the PBS series on the brain with David Eagleman.

The point, and the point of the OP, is that the heart demands what the intellect, by itself, cannot provide.