Religion
In reply to the discussion: what is the most important aspect of the interaction between belivers and non believers [View all]Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)A) I'm not a Christian. I'm a Luciferian Satanist.
B) OK, you make a fair point. I tend to think this insistence that faith is a rational, even scientific, thing is relatively recent and possibly a reaction to fundementalism insistence on literalism. I could be wrong (knowing my mind these days, I likely am) but I would imagine those of the past had more sense that faith is inherently mystical and hence, beyond rational understanding.
C) That said, while it could possibly be argued that faith is rational (albeit, unconvincingly in my view), it cannot possibly be argued that it is scientific. Science rests on observable, repeatable evidence. Faith is incapable of producing any observable evidence. Thus, faith is inherently unscientific. In fact, considering the lack evidence that would mean anything to the observer, the purely scientific poisition would seem to be either agnosticism or "soft" atheism.