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jcmmanuel's Journal
Created on 2009-02-01 11:40:22 (#18331424), last updated 2009-08-30
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Basic Info| Name: | jcmmanuel |
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| Birthdate: | 08-28 |
| Location: | Luxembourg |
BioI am a Christian who prefers to reason my way through faith and life. And no, reason did not arouse unbelief in me. Although faith is not defined by reason, it isn't against reason either. My understanding of faith may be limited - more limited than my understanding of science for instance - yet that is not something to be ashamed of (philosophers are not ashamed either from asking questions, are they?) Atheism appears to be out of the question for me, and that's for the sake of those very questions, because to my understanding, atheism - unlike agnosticism - is incompatible with open-mindedness. I live in the same reality as most people on our planet, but compared to an atheistic outlook, the ceiling of my reality-room happens to be higher - it's an open rooftop. Yet I do respect agnostics (and reasonable atheists are by very definition agnostics, in my understanding). I also expect believers to be reasonable, as faith cannot be against reason. Faith can accept things beyond reason, not against reason (I believe a great fish could swallow Jonah the prophet - I would never believe Jonah would have swallowed a whale). I like people for being authentic rather than being intelligent. Not being authentic cannot be smart no matter how much intellect or science you throw at it. I have observed many times how someone's BA or PhD may serves them to turn nonsense into mega-nonsense. That isn't a problem inherent to BA's or PhD's, it is a problem inherent to human nature. My blogs elaborate on these kind of things.
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