Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God.

Martin Luther
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Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has. Reason is a whore because she always tries to tear down anything that stands in the way of her own ambitions. Reason will not let the truth get in her way and she will use any means necessary to get what she wants. When all else fails, reason resorts to character assassination and false accusations.

The greatest enemy of faith is reason, because she will never support God and God never supports reason. Reason also tries to treat with contempt all that emanates from God or anything that has come down from God or any of his angels.

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