All communication involves faith;...

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts of verbal understanding are so many and diverse that it is a minor miracle that they take place at all.

- Terry Eagleton

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

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