"Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits." ~ Dan Barker
How do you know that this is true? By reason? How do you know that reason is a valid foundation for truth? By reason?
It's based on the nature of faith as a belief held without sufficient evidence....and proven by the countless contradictory beliefs and teachings that are based on faith, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity, etc, all with their own divisions.
This is not evidence that faith is a reliable means of sorting fact from fiction or a means of discovery of the nature of the world, just the opposite. Each religion or theology clinging to their own faith while discouraging dissent and driving away questioning.
