Dear Christian, Doubt is not Your Enemy (Part 2)
In this installment, dear Christian, let’s look at the role of doubt, with regard to religion and truth. Most religions have sacred books or traditions. These books make claims about all sorts of things – the origins of the world, prescriptions for daily living, and promises and threats about a supposed afterlife. The more fundamentalist the religion, the more demands it places on the believer’s mind and life. Often, fundamentalist faiths seek to impose these view by force of law, for example the Taliban and Sharia law, or religious conservatives in the U.S. who want to impose legal penalties for those who violate their beliefs or ‘offend’ their god.