“Faith is something that makes a virtue of not thinking for yourself”
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When I was 17 I was a fervent Christian believer, but could find no one able to explain why I had to believe in the following ad hoc list of things I was supposed to believe in: the three wise men; rising from the dead; the Trinity ( even the ancient fathers of the church are supposed to have asked, “the what?”); walking on water; papal infallibility; angels and archangels; a god who was clearly West European, almighty, but unable to stop wars or disease in little children; a physical place called heaven. I still believe in most of the the Sermon on the Mount. I wish they had stuck with that.
When I was 17 I was a fervent Christian believer, but could find no one able to explain why I had to believe in the following ad hoc list of things I was supposed to believe in: the three wise men; rising from the dead; the Trinity ( even the ancient fathers of the church are supposed to have asked, “the what?”); walking on water; papal infallibility; angels and archangels; a god who was clearly West European, almighty, but unable to stop wars or disease in little children; a physical place called heaven. I still believe in most of the the Sermon on the Mount. I wish they had stuck with that.