Faith And Anti-intellect
"We do not know. Which is why we believe"
Who said the above quote? Andrew Sullivan when speaking about god and faith.
That may be the most anti-intellectual quote I have ever read.
Stunning.
Read the whole entry so you can absorb Andrew's entire backward non-reasoning.
I'm gobsmacked.
Okay, one more morsel:
"...acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth"
I...I...uh...wow...!
Who said the above quote? Andrew Sullivan when speaking about god and faith.
That may be the most anti-intellectual quote I have ever read.
Stunning.
Read the whole entry so you can absorb Andrew's entire backward non-reasoning.
I'm gobsmacked.
Okay, one more morsel:
"...acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth"
I...I...uh...wow...!
Labels: Andrew Sullivan, Faith
posted by Michael at 11:40 AM
1 Comments:
Sullivan isn't using the know/believe dichotomy to mean, say, science vs. faith. Rather, he's criticizing fundamentalist religion vs. non-fundamentalist religion.
Fundamentalist Christianity is obsessed with making the religion as concrete as possible. A fundamentalist doesn't believe in Jesus; I fundamentalist knows for certain (at least in their own mind). It's this certainty that Sullivan is criticizing, because someone who knows what God wants them to do is a lot more dangerous than someone who doesn't.
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