Kent Newsome has commented (thanks, Blogger Web Comments) on my post about anti-intellectualism, a few days ago. And I feel I must comment on one of his comments. 
[...] I feel compelled to point out that I don’t buy the fact that intelligence and learning are inconsistent with religion and faith.
The essence of faith is to believe what you cannot prove. If you question it, if you can make the argument that it is logically impossible, yet you still believe it- that is faith. The more capable you are to question it, the stronger your faith is when you conclude that you believe it anyway.
True, that is faith. But how is that different from beliving in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy?
If faith is knowing that something cannot logically, rationally, be true, and, yet, still believing in it… then why stop at one rationally impossible thing? Why not believe in anything that suits your fancy? Why not believe that all pink objects are alive and sentient, for instance?
If your mind and your reasoning tells you there probably isn’t a god, your eyes see no traces of a god, science explains more and more, up to a point that what is left for God, even if nothing further was explained by science, isn’t really that much… and you still believe there is a God… why? Why is that? What is the source of your belief?
Wishful thinking? A “feeling you can’t describe”? The need for “something greater than yourself”? Indoctrination?
And why “God”? Why not someone or something else, equally supernatural, unknowable and untestable? Why not several things at once? The existence of the supernatural already contradicts science and observation of reality, so why not believe - with all your heart, of course - in two different supernatural beings whose existence contradicts one another, as they are both supposed to have created the universe, at different times, and in different ways? After all, “faith is knowing that it is logically impossible, yet believing in it”… right?
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Just another guy who dislikes ignorance and people who let the religions of man control their lives and behavior still today!
If there is a god or the creator of us then he made us who we are in his image and his way of knowing the difference and I believe that all we have is what is a natural borne gift of knowing right from wrong and the love for another such as your mother and this is a borne with religion of man and god because why else would these traits be incorporated into us without any other external influences such as the religions that we have in the world today!
As children we are pure and innocent without direction as already from birth we know good from bad and this is not a lesson to be learned so why don’t we believe in our selves for once and stop being the puppets of society and the religion that want to control us for reasons of they just can’t break the chain that binds them!
This is a direct sign of weakness in our species as not to be able go through life without having to look for guidance from above as they say.
If he is the creator then we are as “he” and why would he leave us alone on a planet called Earth if he didn’t trust us and believe in us that we would be OK with what he gave us at birth in the image of himself?
Believe in yourself and you will be with God because I would think he would be happy to know that you have intelligence enough to know the difference between worshiping the sun or nothing at all!
Jesus was a man, Mohammed was man and so am I but they are dead and I am alive today taking care of my family and just doing what is right from within my mind and not my heart because that is just like dumb to think that your heart has anything to do with it!
And about Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. and his middle name it is just another stupid topic because it sounds to be Islamic and he is running for president in a predominately Christian country and for some stupid reason it is taboo to speak it as not to offend anybody! I must say I am embarrassed to think that we as intelligent people are so stupid to let this kind of shit govern our lives every day!
How will we survive if we have the influences of Islam now controlling the media in the United States and what we say and do? After what the Islamic idiots did on 911
We are screwed if we don’t get a grip with reality!
Adios