Quotation
"Faith is fed not by a rational search for truth but by a passionate belief in its divine revelation." --Marcelo Gleiser, The Prophet and the Astronomer
I can only say one thing right now about this sentence: it troubles me.
I can only say one thing right now about this sentence: it troubles me.
posted by grackyfrogg @ 2:22 PM
4 Comments:
At 6:44 PM ,
Porter said...
I rather prefer: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped-for, the evidence of things not seen" (emphases mine).
At 6:02 AM ,
The Little Kappa said...
Ignorance is only bliss until one is confronted by things willfully unknown. Faith doesn't have to be rational, but neither does it have to be irrational.
My old Bible teacher used to say it this way: "Faith will never be blind; it is a seeing thing, a thing that will take off your self-imposed shutters if you allow it."
I think, perhaps, that Porter said it best though.
At 3:59 PM ,
BeautiPhil said...
i don't get why this troubles you. in a good way or bad way?
why cannot faith be fueled by a belief that truth is divine? I believe God is true and just, does that not give me the faith to follow Him?
At 5:25 PM ,
grackyfrogg said...
there is an implied assumption in the quotation that faith doesn't grow (ie "is not fed") by rationality. in other words (broadly), faith is by definition irrational, and is less about truth than it is about "passionate belief" (and of course, you can passionately believe in anything, even that the world is square, if you want to). normally i would argue against the assumption, but at the moment i am not certain of much, and of the nature of faith probably least of all.
and maybe in the end, my uncertainty is more troubling to me than anything else. but i don't really know.
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