“Christ does not save us by acting a parable of divine love he acts the parable of divine love by saving us. That is the Christian faith.”
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Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore we must be saved by faith.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
When you have put all your faith in man and continue to be disappointed, don't you hope there is something out of there that is not of human element?