"Afterall, what would be the virtue in faith if that in which we have faith could be known?" - Nicci in Phantom
After getting through the 10th book of Objectivist fantasy series Sword of Truth, I just wanted to point out in its caricatures, that people "of faith" tend to have a LOT of respect for those who have faith in the known. In fact, by point of reference faith in known things tends to be one the first things that apologists speak of, e.g. the faith in the chair you sit down in bs.
I might even suggest that those "of faith" tend to have more respect for those "knowledgeable" (for clarification's sake, that is facetious) than those who are blindly "faithful". Yes, there is a virtue in faith in the unknown and unknowable; however, that doesn't preclude faith in the knowable. More to the point, those who exclude faith in the unknown absolutely are dismissed; those whose dogmatic faith in Reason and the demonstratable are laughed at as the limited fools they are (although coward tends to be the most common accusation from people, one I'm not entirely sure is justifiable).
I'm not begging the question here in regards to the unknowable, known, etc, or the validity of the object of faith in many people which if any is curious is in fact plain wrong.
But to conclude on a paraphrase of Scot Adams, we are all idiots (or stupid), we are just idiots about different things.
