Thursday, December 23, 2010

REASON AND FAITH

Believers reproach me for not going along with faith.
Seculars harass me with good reasons not to believe.
But I don’t think reason and faith are as estranged as night and day.

I don’t place my faith in reason,
nor do I search for reason in faith,
quite on the opposite.

I don’t believe in those who feign to believe only out of worship -
whoever says to act in faith
has only hopefully in good faith decided to decide any later.

I don’t see either how brainstrain could make a good replacement
[ for creed
When the hour comes, it is not reason but decision
that leads your head towards the net.

This is, I hope, my belief:
that I will be in good reason
once I have a reason to believe it.

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