Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

Semi-Coherent thoughts

I find it both curi­ous and amaz­ing that for many, belief — such a fun­da­men­tal and basic thing — is so frag­ile. It only takes one idea: a ques­tion, an objec­tion or an appeal to the emo­tions, and the seed of doubt has been planted, and a con­fused and fren­zied descent has begun. It is as if ques­tion­ing were the antithe­sis to belief, and I sus­pect for uncrit­i­cal peo­ple (which are many in this ‘day and age’)  it is. An appeal to the emo­tions, the “pas­sions” — this seems to me the most likely cause of peo­ples lack or rejec­tion of faith, rather than argu­ments. Many of us hide behind cal­cu­lated thoughts — logic and “ratio­nal think­ing” — but we only point out with logic what the emo­tions which to express. Emo­tions can­not han­dle the idea of an eter­nal hell, or pun­ish­ment from a “lov­ing” and “just” God any­more than … (Read more)