Oh dear. Is that a nervous tick, or a restrained reaction? :)
I don't know if faith can ever be other than irrational, myself: most of the theologians on my reading list make a good case for the impossibility of proving the existence of the divine being through deductive reasoning. (Schleiermacher makes a case for God with his feeling of 'absolute dependency' lark, but that's nowhere near a rational proof if you're not already predisposed to believe.)
I admire most believing types, but gods and little fishes, they puzzle me. :)
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Oh dear. Is that a nervous tick, or a restrained reaction? :)
I don't know if faith can ever be other than irrational, myself: most of the theologians on my reading list make a good case for the impossibility of proving the existence of the divine being through deductive reasoning. (Schleiermacher makes a case for God with his feeling of 'absolute dependency' lark, but that's nowhere near a rational proof if you're not already predisposed to believe.)
I admire most believing types, but gods and little fishes, they puzzle me. :)