ravi, I like the way the woman formulated it best. Faith is primary and is affective, not cognitive. Doubt is something that actually strengthens true faith by lending it a cognitive content. So doubt is a constituent of faith. Faith and doubt are in dialogue with each other.
Certainty is hermetically sealed. In repudiating doubt, it discloses the essential faithlessness of a "faith" that is so fragile that it cannot entertain doubt. It is monotonic. Its cognitive dimension consists of a rationalization of its fearful retreat from engagement with an other. On 4/12/07, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"the opposite of faith is not doubt, its certainty". The opposite of doubt is not faith, it is certainty.
-- Sandwichman