I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
–Galileo Galilei
A Mindful Life / Kathryn Harper
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
–Galileo Galilei
An aptly phrased statement as to why I cannot accept any current “faith” (religion) that I’ve heard of. “Faith” to me is ipso facto a rejection of sense, reason and intellect. Faith in this sense is a matter of picking something you want to accept as true, based on no evidence of the senses, no critical thought, and deciding you “believe” it. I assume (without knowing) that making that choice provides comfort to those who genuinely make it (again assuming, without knowing, that some folks truly believe what they profess). Honestly, I wish I could participate, have some comfort like that, but in all my years wishing has not made it so.