Is it possible to find answers to life's ultimate questions inside the confining walls of religion and science? Do religion and science hold, each within its own walls, the very essence of life...the very essence of existence? Can religion claim ultimate and exclusive truth? Can science claim ultimate and exclusive Truth? Since neither system claims reliance on the other or even a sincere cooperative effort or collaboration between each other, one could assume that each system has determined and claimed its own 'ultimateness' and exclusiveness, again proving the controversy is not reconcilable.
Can Reason be a determinate to the faculty of faith? Can Faith occur on a one party basis or does it take a giver and a receiver? Is Faith the acceptance, the unquestioned acceptance, of an other's experience or at least, opinion? Can Faith result in one's own personal and uninfluenced experience? Is Faith ever able to be tested by the search for evidence as in archaeological excavation? And then, does Faith become Reason if tested? Is Faith the result of imposed power over unsuspecting victims? Is Faith the victim of Reason? Is Faith dictated by the power of Reason, as in "you must believe and believe in, what I tell you or you are guilty of sin"? Does Reason seek a victim and threaten the victim to uphold dictates saying it must believe and abide under penalty of sin that which Reason has determined to suit its own use and need? Is Faith the result of threats for the sake of accumulating power over a victim? Does Reason, control in the long run-Faith? Is Faith blind? Does Faith accept and believe in that which Reason imposes or does Faith react to that which Reason imposes? Is Faith imposed under penalty of sin if not accepted and abided by? Is Faith the captive of Reason under duress? Is Intelligence free to accept the true data that is present to it? Can and does faith react or does faith rely solely on its own facts established through first party revelation? What of second and third party revelation?What about revelation that is based on the written word that has been written and rewritten, altered and transposed? Does Reason control that which is beneficial or that which is destructive or both?Does the power of reason build walls? Is Intelligence limited, imprisoned, or freed by Faith? Is Intelligence limited, imprisoned, or freed by Reason?
Does religious Faith control that which is beneficial or that which is destructive? Does the power of Faith build walls? Does Reason precede Faith? Does Reason provide the power tool that convinces, persuades, and effects Faith? is Faith the result of displays of power that effect and impress, persuade, and in many cases, threaten? Is Faith freely offered and freely accepted? Is Faith questionable or is faith infallible? Is not 'questioning' that which determines just what is Faith from what is Reason? What of trust? Does Reason allow for trust? Is it possible to have a Faith that is based on trust and not control? Where do we go for the answers to life's ultimate questions?
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