Reason and Faith

I’ll try to be very brief and abrupt here. There is the thought huge dichotomy between reason and faith - faith is faith in life as a whole, and of course beyond biological, physical life and existence to the divine. There has then been the supposed opposition of this if a sense of the world built on reason, we build up our map of existence through reason and observation, and progress onwards in an ascending curve of mastery over surrounding reality.

Thus dichotomy is in fact absurd for the most intellectually primal reason, and that is that reason can only extend from faith, and here that means faith in language, that as a matter of course meaning and language are intrinsically entwined. If I doubt that meaning, my language will fall to pieces in my very hands, and if true to my lack of faith, then we will quickly find we can’t say a single thing about anything. The whole edifice crumbles.

Where this is actually being acted out is maybe most obvious with all the gender stuff that all of a sudden, became so seminal an issue. So here a man decides to identify as a woman. Intellectually what is actually happening here? It’s exactly what I talked about above: the faith that is inescapable to our connection to language has been minused out of the equation, and so the meaningfulness of language falls apart. That invisible and mystical meaningfulness of language is taken away, faith is gone, and words can mean anything, which is to say they don’t mean anything. This is the consequence of a reason actually removed from faith. It leads to total intellectual collapse, seeing as you’re now disengaged from intellectual reality, which extends from faith to begin with - the same as mathematics rests on the exact same foundation of faith in the language of mathematics. If someone here started saying things like, “How do we know two is two? Maybe two isn’t two,” - and this kind of crap was taken seriously, here also, faith removed  mathematics would crumble as a meaningful phenomenon. Reason without faith disintegrates.