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I am not sure our personalities can be ballanced between the two, at least as far as skepticism and faith are concerned. The faithful are genereally faithful to something. They are willing to accept, for whatever reason, the dogma of religion whole. They can believe without proof, or without the sort of proof the skeptic requires. The person who is not wired for faith, is a freethinker, and has difficulty accepting anything. I am not sure how a person of that sort could reconcile a "part" he doesn't have. Now there may be freethinkers who are faithful, as long as they have found a reason for thier faith. That would be a person who would be willing to re-examine their faith if they were presented with evidence that undermined it, if such evidence turned up. The truly "faithful" in my model, would choose to ignore the evidence rather than give up their belief. That is the closest I can come to imagining a reconciliation of the two types I postulate, at their extremes. Of course like everything else, I am sure the ability to believe is a continuum. |
