Quote Originally Posted by The Stranger
not everything is and should be reasonable, i doubt that everything can be reasonable. the same goes for faith. i guess the seperation that is most popular now is a good one. in the public domain we would want reason to flourish and have the upperhand. but in day to day life what most people do is believe in a good outcome and make that step forward. because had you been fully rational you would end up afraid to step out of your door because you cannot know what is out there.
Should only reason hold sway in the public sphere though? What about Human Rights, which were founded on the theistic principle that all man (later extended to women) are created equally? In a non-theistic and purely rational world Human Rights would never have emerged, so it seems reasonable to allow room for faith and belief in public life, religious or otherwise, given that all of us value the results those qualities have brought to public discourse in the past.

Personally, I don't like the seperation between "public" and "private", it implies I can be a good public servant but go home and beat my wife, or ruthlesslessly persecute the poor in government and still read my children a bed time story, asnd those two lives be seperate and non-reflective of each other.