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I'm not sure why you were downvoted: "The great cathedrals...are...arguments for faith."

I downmodded him. Arguments for faith != God exists.

The quoted text has the opposite meaning, more like the Sistine Chapel exists because its creator(s) were inspired by God.

It's right there in fact: "the highest achievements of the human species have been motivated"

Plus, it is "arguments for faith than the disputations of theology", presented as a comparison, not justifying why people have faith.

Really, is my english that bad? I can't believe how someone could interpret this text the way Avshalom did.

Well I take faith to mean "the belief in the existence of God." I doubt the comment intends to convince us simply that this belief exists (we know it does, and that many people hold it). An argument "for faith" is at the weakest something like "the belief in the existence of God is not an absurd one," and at the strongest "God does exist."

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