Eventually I’ve come to terms, so to speak, with faith – to tolerate it. I believed, and still believe, that faith and reason can never be conciliated. They are different, probably clashing, domains. You do need a leap of faith to bridge the horror between faith and reason. The beauty of faith, just like love, lies beyond that horror, far away from reason. You might consider any of them superior, or you might reject any of them altogether, faith or reason, that’s your privilege. But apparently none of them seems to explain the mysteries of existence, if you think there really are any.
Now I might not have sufficient knowledge to reject the validity of faith, and I certainly don’t have it to deny reason. I have my feelings, my biases, my prejudices, my mundane thinking and extremely limited knowledge. But reason certainly is the most efficient tool to tackle with this labyrinth. Faith seems to be the easy way, but it just can’t be enshrouded within reason. That’s impossible. If you think you’ve done that, you’ve only ruined faith.
Differing spheres these are, and reverence be to both. Reject them both. Reject one of them. You’re free and you’re responsible
Posted by Umer Latif 
