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If you think about carefully, things that we can know through reason, or through knowledge that we acquire, are totally unimportant. Im not saying that we should not go to school, or read, or acquire more knowledge. Knowledge and education is essential; or we will never learn to be wise. (But then again, being knowledgeable does not mean for sure that you are wise) But think about it, two plus two is four. We can be absolutely certain of this fact. But do people include this in their daily prayers? Is it something we will lie pondering over when we are dying? Not at all i think. I wouldnt be on my death bed wondering about addition and subtraction.

But faith is different.

When we talk about faith in religion, I'd like to quote Kierkegaard "If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. If I wish to preserve myself in faith I must constantly be intent upon holding fast the objective uncertainty, so as to remain out upon the deep, over seventy thousand fanthoms of water, still preserving my faith."

And that's pretty heavy stuff. I believe God is out there, but I dont have that kind of faith in any religion just yet.

Many people try to prove the existance of God; bring him within the bounds of rationality. At least that is what I try to do, and along the way i suffer a loss of faith because i try to content myself with proof or logical argument. I realised though, it doesnt matter whether or not Christianity/Islam/Buddism etc is true, it is whether it is true for you.

Isnt it?

And let say we talk about faith between people. It is a big thing, you have to admit. You can never know whether a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important - well maybe not to everyone, but to most people. But it is a question people are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person truly loves you. It's something that you just have to believe or hope. But here, things are more important to you (okay, me) than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. Just pause and ponder, people don't think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.