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Some people say that religious beliefs can be neither justified nor refuted by reason
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Some people say that religious beliefs can be neither justified nor refuted by reason. However, while sometimes this claim is used as a reason for rejecting religious beliefs, at other times it is used to conclude that these beliefs are established by faith. To what extent is faith a legitimate basis for knowledge claims, in religion and different Areas of Knowledge? In order to fully understand the legitimacy of faith as a basis for knowledge claims, one must first look at how faith is affected by the three ways of knowing: emotion, perception, and reason. Firstly, faith is the adherence to an idea or theory without any necessary concrete proof of the concept; this notion can be something as small as a specific superstition to something as significant as a way of living and approaching one's values and morals. In order to understand the question that's being...
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