Faith and Reason

Throughout the millennia, most religious texts have attempted to blend faith and reason. Thomas Aquinas, for example, set out to prove the existence of God using only the laws of logic that had been propounded by Aristotle roughly 1400 years earlier. Descartes, perhaps 300 years later, was on a similar mission.

As shown above, however, faith and reason aren’t always best of friends.  Some of today’s churches are run by those who want us to choose between the two.

A cynical mind may suspect that these folks want us to remain as stupid as possible.