I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Summary

This quote expresses the author's belief that it is not necessary to have blind faith in a higher power at the expense of critical thinking and rationality. The author argues that since humans have been given the abilities of sense, reason, and intellect, it is unlikely that a God would encourage us to ignore and abandon these gifts. Instead, the implication is that one should embrace and employ these faculties in order to better understand and interpret the world around them.

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