Faith vs. Reason

“Faith is the narrative we use when we don’t have reason or evidence to support our desired conclusion.”

When we have the reason or fact for our belief, we give the reason and we demonstrate the evidence.

For example, when we want to buy a used car, we go see the car and we often show it to a mechanic to make sure the car is as described.  We don’t resort to faith to buy the car because faith is not a reliable pathway to truth. 

We should do the same with all our other mindsets and beliefs.  However, we resort to faith as the basis of our belief when we don’t have the reason or the facts to support our belief.  Beliefs that are unsupported with reason and facts are often comforting mindsets that we concoct in order to feel better.  We do so because we want to create a confirmation-bias.  This is why, it is difficult to reason with people who base their thinking on faith, rather than on reason, facts, and evidence.  As further stated in Self-Relativity:

“You can’t argue logic with someone who wants to fit a narrative to a desired conclusion.”