"Much as it will pain my atheist friends to hear this, the role of reason in the Western world was invented by the Greek, upheld by the Romans, and when those Romans became Christians, Reason was merged, melted and mated to the Christian religion"
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"Reason is the Devil's greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil's appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom ... Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism... She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets."
"Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but -- more frequently than not -- struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God."
"Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of sight and ... know nothing but the word of God."
-Martin Luther
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http://www.fstdt.net/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=81999
'I don't need "sound reasoning". I have faith.'
-Matt Wade, BaptistBoard
"Reason without Christ, if elevated to the sum and final Good of Man, leads to inhuman anger"
"one cannot accept Christ without excepting reason, and cannot accept Reason without accepting Christ."
These right-wing Fundamentalist Christians accepted Christ. And as you can see...:
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...they - through their Christ-reasoned & 'justified' actions - excepted reason.
You said it, I didn't.
(*Places note on charred, crackling & smoking corpse of John C. Wrong's argument, which reads*):
'Warmest regards, Your Friendly Neighbourhood Argument Annihilator.'
@Reynardine
"When you said one cannot accept Christ without *excepting* reason, you actually told the truth."
A definite case of subconscious honesty on John C. Wrong's part, methinks.
One doesn't need to be Freud to figure out fundies.