Setting intellect, as the pillar of religion, aside, the theologians sought for a replacing pillar and grasped the faith. They supposed that the weakness of speculative intellect
could be compensated by the practical one. Finding the weakness of intellect in some
religious axioms, some theologians, such as Thomas Aquinas had permitted practical
intellect to act. William James and Pascal, asserting the deficieny of intellect, let the
practical intellect in on the most important religious axioms, that is the existence of God
and the Hereafter, and gave the believers glad tidings of "will" replacing the deficient
intellect. Their viewpoints were criticized by the following philosophers as well. J.L.
Mackie's critiques concerning these viewpoints have not received any definite responses.
The present article deals with his criticques of the faith theories
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