Quote of the Day
"I felt a kinship with [my atheist teacher]. It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them -- and then they leap.
I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He bursts out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a way of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
-- Pi Patel, the eponymous hero of Yann Martel's Life of Pi
I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He bursts out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a way of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation."
-- Pi Patel, the eponymous hero of Yann Martel's Life of Pi
posted by Kate Marie | 9:51 PM | Permalink
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I guess "Life of Pi" has nothing to do with The Joy of Pi.
A belated happy Pi Day (3.14) to all the Rumpus bloggers.
Very clever, CIV. At at 2PM, it was 3.1416.
All this talk reminds me of the Agnostic Dyslexic Insomniac. . . .
He stayed up all night wondering if there just might be a doG.
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