dude- brainwashing isn't faith- it's mind manipulation- You state faith is independant of reason? Since when? It takes a tremendous amouint of reason to deduce that God created the world and that He is involved in people's lives in a personal way- MANY people BEFORE they becoem saved observe people who have been saved and observe that God indeed is present in their lives- they reason that the actions of the persons are NOT their own and that something vibrant is at work- heck- they even observe that God gives these saved people that they are observign special reveleations that come from on high- (No, I'm not talking about the hocus pocus revelations of cults like mormons etc- I'm talking watching God direct people's path in VERY specific ways that are quite obvious IF you observe and see it correctly)
It takes reason to deduce evolution is a lie based opn faulty science and blatant outrigfht lies, and it takes reason to explore the massive intracacies of life to deduce that there IS design behind them- Just ask any scientist who set out to prove God wasn't real but ended up astonished at what they found- their reasoning led them directly to faith in the God they once could NOT see due to their own blindness. http://sacredscoop.com
Faith is independant of reason?...of course it is. If faith were dependant on reason it would be called science not faith. I don't want to get into a dense epistemological argument here but in the end faith is rooted in belief in the unseen , unmeasurable, and unknowable. To assert otherwise is to assert you can see,measure and know the mind of God. If you are willing to assert that then allow me time to step away from you because the assertion alone makes me tremble.