The Church of Reason  The Cathedral of correction

The Church of Reason is not a place.  That is it is not a building or a location.  Rather it is a state of mind.  A method, a system, a process.  If we want to get mystical, a certain plane.  It is a place we go to try and piece together the events of the world, the events of our lives.  To try and make sense of all our experience.  I say it is not a location in the usual sense, something we can point to, can give directions to.  Rather it is located in what we call our mind, or brain if you prefer.  Why use the word Church?  Because our belief in reason is akin to religious faith.  We have to believe in belief.  We have to have faith in faith.  When we strip back our reason and ask why we have come to any particular conclusion, what is the authority for that conclusion, we are left with a process.  We went through the process of reasoning in the light of the facts as we knew them and came to a conclusion.  We might be right we might be wrong, there might be facts we are unaware of.  But it's all we have.  It's all the reasoning process can give us. So we have to believe.  We have to have faith in the process.