Journeys with Tim

the skeptic and the believer

Dallas Willard has this to say about the contemporary culture in his Hearing God:

We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than the one who believes. You can be almost as stupid as a cabbage, as long as you doubt. The fashion of the age has identified mental sharpnes with a pose, not with genuine intellectual method and character.

It's true. If you doubt everything, you're seen as smart; it's the believers (those who take a position) that are on the defensive. Don't commit to anything and you'll be given the keys to the kingdom. Strange days.