Jake wrote:
<<Just because everything is
in principle subject to rational criticism, do you think I cannot take a
stand
on anything? And if I do take a stand, does it necessarily follow that I am
not holding that position in principle subject to rational criticism?
I don't perceive my thinking processes as one-tracked as this, I suspect
very
few others are either.>>
You are very close to EXACTLY what (intelligent) people who see the value in it call "faith."
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