This article, entitled Faith, Reason and Doubt, is so far pretty good, although I’m not too deep into it yet. But I do very much like where he’s talking about how faith shouldn’t be arbitrary, and you shouldn’t have to abandon your faculties of reason that God gave to you in order to believe in Him.

When a jury convenes to hear a case, why do they listen to the evidence? Surely it would be a great timesaver if all the jurors could simply believe in the guilt or innocence of the accused without having to go to all that effort. And surely millions of high school geometry students would benefit greatly if the teacher asked for the proof of a theorem and they were allowed to answer, “Well, I just believe very strongly that the angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees; I know it in my heart.”

And this is good too:

I think that there are many things in our society masquerading as faith. What many see as faith may actually be just force of habit; or patriotism; or stubbornness; or family pride; or intellectual laziness; or childishness; or gullibility; or the effects of being brainwashed. The problem I see is that faith is kept separate from intellect, whereas God wants every part of a Christian, including his mind.

If this article keeps up like this, we just might be in luck… Wait wait, upon further reading it’s starting to fall apart for me. Check this part out where he’s talking about some book he read:

The author was an Episcopal bishop who obviously in some sense considered himself a believer; but as I dug deeper, I found that he believed in nothing of a “miraculous” nature. I am not sure whether he believed in the divinity of Jesus or even in God; I know that he did not consider the resurrection of Jesus to be a real event in history. He treated it as a story and discussed the significance, beauty, and power of that story and its impact on our daily lives. But I say this: If the resurrection is just a story, then it doesn’t have any real power or significance, and its real impact on my daily life is in the long run precisely zero.

I pretty much couldn’t agree less with that. There’s no such thing as “just a story” and stories, no matter on what level they are “true” or “untrue” always have significance, beauty and power.