True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things. - Andrew Sullivan
I purge compulsively. I'm constantly shedding things.
- Andrew Sullivan
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion? - Andrew Sullivan
How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a vi… - Andrew Sullivan
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a vi…
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and im… - Andrew Sullivan
In academia, left-liberalism is so entrenched its advocates' debating skills have gone rusty. When you've been talking to yourself for decades and im…
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics … - Andrew Sullivan
What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics …
A mind is a wonderful thing to change. - Andrew Sullivan
A mind is a wonderful thing to change.
Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women. - Andrew Sullivan
Homophobia: the fear that another man will treat you like you treat women.
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online. - Andrew Sullivan
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow. - Andrew Sullivan
If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.
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