Can we agree on this?

[mrdevious]

And by the way, why are we discussing religion in the spirituality section?

Well, there's no "religion" forum and I'm pretty sure that spirituality is intertwined with religion.

I don't see a good reason to rely on faith for anything. What good is it, really? I prefer facts and educated guesses. I like to have good explainable reasons for believing what I believe, and cannot fathom why anyone would consider it a virtue to not have good explainable reasons for believing what they believe. If I don't know something, I'm comfortable admitting I don't know and not inventing answers.

I know man, it baffles me too. We've all read about dark times in history; the soviet union, the spanish inquisition, the pagan purge, the countless upon countless examples in history where so many inocent people suffered and died and were repressed because they lived in an age of doctrine rather than an age of reason. And yet, much as we all feel for people of these times and feel frustrated at their plight, most still feel that a society based on reason is somehow a bad thing.