Carl Lotus BeckerReason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.
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Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it. Reason can't destroy faith. Faith is not dependent on reason. Faith is the stuff of which reason is made.
Source: The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth Century Philosophers
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