Faith Without Doubt

[jeff_duntemann]

Numerous people have sent me notes since this past Saturday asking if I'd heard about Ted Haggard, a local pastor at New Life Church, the largest of several rock-band megachurches that have long been giving Colorado Springs a bad name among secular folk. Well, uh, yeah. It's about the only

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[shoei_mike]

To paraphrase Socrates, the unexamined faith is not worth having?

[obreerbo]

There's an insight that derives from Asimov that seems relevant here: The Greek word for "thought" is skepsis, which is the root of our words "skeptic" and "skeptical." This is because the very act of doubt (being skeptical) implies thought. Of course, truly "blind" faith denies skepticism, and thus denies thought.