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<blockquote data-quote="mathiusdragoon" data-source="post: 1713615" data-attributes="member: 553006"><p>There is a grain of truth in what you are stating here, but you are also overgeneralizing. If your beliefs are based solely on reason, it does not necessarily mean that you will give them up merely because you have lost a debate, there are reasons why you would continue to believe even though your ideas didn&#039;t pan out in a reasonable debate. On the other hand, if your beliefs are based solely on faith then you would not necessarily resort to violent or forceful conversion. Some of these types of believers simply accept that no one can be forced into their beliefs, they have to come to them on their own. This was the view of Soren Kierkegaard on Christianity, who was an important philosophical and theological writer so you might want to research him some more. Finally, there are those that believe that reason and faith are both important to their beliefs. This was the view of St. Thomas Aquinas.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="mathiusdragoon, post: 1713615, member: 553006"] There is a grain of truth in what you are stating here, but you are also overgeneralizing. If your beliefs are based solely on reason, it does not necessarily mean that you will give them up merely because you have lost a debate, there are reasons why you would continue to believe even though your ideas didn't pan out in a reasonable debate. On the other hand, if your beliefs are based solely on faith then you would not necessarily resort to violent or forceful conversion. Some of these types of believers simply accept that no one can be forced into their beliefs, they have to come to them on their own. This was the view of Soren Kierkegaard on Christianity, who was an important philosophical and theological writer so you might want to research him some more. Finally, there are those that believe that reason and faith are both important to their beliefs. This was the view of St. Thomas Aquinas. [/QUOTE]

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