Faith Is Rational: An Invitation to Consider the Possibility

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Editors' Note: This article is part of the Patheos Public Square on Faith and Reason. Read other perspectives here. Have you heard the quote by Mark Twain, the one that goes, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so"? (attributed in the work to Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar). Or perhaps the

more recent variation, by Richard Dawkins, is more familiar? He said, "Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence."

From this perspective, faith is either irrational or arational. For some, in light of their own experiences, these stereotypes ring true. Perhaps asking questions or voicing doubts was looked down on, brushed aside, or even harshly criticized in a church you no longer attend. For others, their main encounter with Christianity is through the lens of what Richard Dawkins or other critics have said, but they haven't investigated for themselves. Or maybe it [...]

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