An introduction
Ever since hearing Evid3nc3’s journey out of faith, I was inspired to look at it the same way. I have had difficulties with my parent’s questions, since they want to know why? As if there is any one thing they can refute and bring me back to the fold. The idea of listing out all the “evidence” out there felt dishonest, because it wasn’t just facts
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Many people confuse faith and belief. It is probably because they have been brought up in the mistaken belief [if you will excuse the expression] that the are the same thing. But I've found that they are not. I've encountered many people with deep and profound personal faith and many people who simply believe.* About many things, not just about religion (of which they have belonged to several).
You see one of the doctrines of faith, which would be perfectly understandable to a medieval Christian scholar, but foreign to anyone untrained or unread in theology, is that unquestioned faith is, for all practical purposes, worthless. For faith to have any value it must be constantly questioned. Tested, if you will. But somehow the whole idea of free will, something that was so vitally important to early Judeo-Christian thought, has been lost, in favour of simple belief. After all belief can be pure. It is unquestioned and unexamined. It raises no doubts.
But people aren't pure. They are human. Flawed and vulnerable. Their very ( ... )
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