Can faith alone ever be sufficient?

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61. A lot of the needs we call rational are based in our organic nature or social matrix.

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Not in reason. We don't eat because we have reasoned we need food. We don't want to live because we have reasoned that life is good. We eat because we are hungry. We want to live because we have a life instinct. We want money so we can eat, and stealing food has negative social consequences.

None of these are reasoned positions. But they are so embedded in our physical and social existence that they appear "rational."

No emotions are rationally justifiable, nor do we need to justify them. We just feel them. We can't reason them away. We can learn to control our behaviors into more socially acceptable forms, but that's not the same thing. We can also learn to change habits of thought that lead to unpleasant or maladaptive emotions, but that's not the same thing either.