In this quote, Soren Kierkegaard is saying that Faith is a gut feeling, an emotion, and not an idea, something that comes from the mind, through a thought process. According to Kierkegaard, Faith is the confliction of this gut feeling, that you feel with burning absolution, and the inability to prove the object of your faith. If Kierkegaard is right, then thinking isn’t a part of faith, if you reasoned through your faith you may well come to the conclusion that your faith is unsupported by any knowledge or truths, and that if you were using reason, you would have to abandon your faith. Becau

In the case of religious faith, it is the majority of cases now that people have not thought about their faith, and have only come to believe in it due to the culture of their society, and the way in which they are brought up. This is faith without thought, no reasoning has been used to come to a conclusion about why this faith should be held, it is just done so. A. Plantinga argues that this belief in god is a “properly basic belief” and that it is ok to believe something without thought or reason, but only until someone wishes to disprove, or opposes that belief, then rational argument is needed to justify belief in it.

It could be argued that to know something, you must have faith in it, ie. It is justified true belief, or rather you must have faith in it, as it is true, and has been proved, so to not believe it would be irrational. Therefore faith does not begin prec

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