The emotional disturbance on which faith rest is obviously fear. There is the fear of supernatural punishments, and the fear of social ostracism and material penalties. There is also the fear of losing divine dogmatism, ecclesiastical pigmatism, and biblical hogmatism.
Animals are controlled by fear. Children are educated to have a religion by fear. Only adult man is capable of being guided by reason.
No one would wish to place his life under the hands of a terrified animal or by a frightened child. Yet, when a man sacrifices his reason for fear-motivated faith he does just that.
It is true that man's reason is fallible. But it is infinitely far more superior than blind emotion.
In shaping our own destinies and those of others, reason may be a clumsy tool, but it is the only one we have.
In the meantime, it is true: thinking with reason is one of the hardest thing to keep up. That is why only the few enjoy the power of thinking under the power of reason. - - - Poch Suzara
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