Re: How should we deal with the unanswerable?
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Bunny, you say that a rational faith is possible, but isn't your conception of faith one which holds it to be the belief in things which cannot be demonstrated?
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I didnt fully follow the second part of your post. In answer to this though, although they may not be demonstrable, I think the things I believe on faith are falsifiable (possibly through science, more likely through reason).
It may be that my faith resolves to a collection of untestable statements which would make it pretty valueless. It doesnt seem like that's the case though - I think there are hard problems which arise in my particular view of spirituality/religion and these hard problems are likely to be the make or break issues.
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