Margaret AtwoodIt must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth.
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It must have been then that I began to lose faith in reasonable argument as the sole measure of truth. The need to believe in something with absolute certainty despite evidence that contradicts that belief is a sign that belief has become unreasonable. It is also a sign of fanatical thinking. Faith, an irrational belief, is dangerous because it has little to no basis in fact or reason. Believing something only because someone else believes it is a dangerous practice.
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