…Good stuff, this. I think Geoff did hit on the closest, and possibly strongest argument for the unreasonableness of faith - that it teaches us that some things are unknowable, and that it’s OK for us to just accept that and not push back against our own ignorance.
It’s not a…
I was raised staunchly Baptist, mostly in the south. So, you can understand what kind of regressive attitudes I was exposed to. I think a lot of “faith-based” belief systems teach the kind of ignorance I abhor and it caused me to split from anything I deemed “Christian” while not really having a good understanding of the term outside of my very limited experience.
What I have come to understand is that rational faith isn’t meant to be a stranglehold on discovery. Take the story of the Tower of Babel, for instance. In my upbringing this story was often used as a “mankind had better not overstep their bounds and just accept certain things are because they are” when I’ve come to believe a completely different moral to the tale - mankind should always keep an eye on the consequences of their exploration.
Anyway, this is an interesting rabbit hole.
