Prof. Pam's Religion Blog » World War II http://profpam.com/religion Sat, 30 Apr 2011 05:37:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Doubting and religious belief http://profpam.com/religion/2009/12/27/doubting-and-religious-belief/ http://profpam.com/religion/2009/12/27/doubting-and-religious-belief/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:47:59 +0000 PH http://profpam.com/religion/?p=64 Continue reading →]]> This is a topic that interests me a great deal. There was a thread on Andrew Sullivan’s blog that I found intriguing. It was prompted by Pope Benedict’s recension of the prior excommunication of a schismatic bishop. (More posts on the current situation coming up.)  Any reasonable person would call this bishop a holocaust denier. But that part is an aside. The substance of the post is about faith and doubt. Sullivan writes:

… the internal wrestling never ends. The search for truth must always be first; and religion is nothing if it is not true. Which is why doubt can never be a danger. Banishing doubt is the danger.

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