Jon writes:
in accepting logic do you feel you would also have to reject God and embrace empiricism?
Logic is a method of using premises to derive conclusions. Even using prefect deductive logic, the conclusions are only as true as the premises are. Inductive logic is less conclusive, but will still probably be incorrect if your premises are. 'Garbage in, garbage out.'
It is possible to use logic on faith and get conclusions. The problem is that conclusions based upon made-up premises are often contradictory. Not very many of the religious will use logic to that depth in analysing their beliefs, but there is always the danger that logic could expose any flaws in your faith.
Also, it seems to me that the religious are often fond of fallacies. Now, this prevents even more danger of hurting one's own beliefs, because not only are you resting your logic on shaky premises, but the logic itself isn't straight. It may be even more of a possibility that the logic will pose a danger to faith if used incorrectly, though this doesn't appear often for some reason.
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