Monday, March 19, 2007

The Reality Based Community: How Faith in Jesus Avoids Utopian Fallacies

by John Mark Reynolds

I try to explain that this is not faith . . . at least not Christian faith. Faith is believing things despite some contrary evidence. It is building a view of the world based first on things we know beyond a reasonable doubt (though we can still have doubts on a very dark and terrible night of the soul!) and then building on that foundation to ideas we can accept that seem (on the whole) better than their contrary. (more)