Types of Religious Faith

I have been thinking about types of faith, specifically, the motivations, whether conscious or unconscious, of a belief system, and their corresponding connotations or colorations on the faith syntax. It must be understood that all of the types I am about to describe are, to my mind, actual manifestations of a faith syntax, that is, the assertion is made that "what is held to be the case" is thus necessarily "what is the case."

A movie quote that struck me.

"I want to tell you things so you won't stumble through life. I've done the wildest things, the foulest things, but I've done them superbly. I feel innocent now."

From Henry and June.

Excerpt from "Psychology and Alchemy" by Carl G. Jung

"The faint echo of the Fire Music--the Loki motif--is not out of key, for what does 'fulness of life' mean? What does 'wholeness' mean? I feel that there is every reason here for some anxiety, since man as a whole being casts a shadow. The fourth was not separated from the three and banished to the kingdom of everlasting fire for nothing. Does not an uncanonical saying of our Lord declare: 'Whoso is near unto me is near unto the fire'? Such dire ambiguities are not meant for grown-up children--which is why Heraclitus of old was named 'the dark,' because he spoke too plainly and called life itself and 'ever-living fire.' And that is why there are uncanonical sayings for those that have ears to hear."

On a Paradox

It is a curious paradox, one that I am very familiar with and have spent a great amount of effort contemplating.

The two mutually exclusive sides of the paradox are firstly, the criticism of intellectualism itself in favor of simplicity, and secondly, the criticism of simplicity in favor of intellectualism.