Arrogant Religious Certitude

Arrogant religious certitude allows no room for the possibility of being mistaken. Rather, it stomps all over the virtue of humility, failing to recognize that the human capacity to ingest, digest, and metabolize divine truth is limited.

So True Believers call each other names, assume they are saved and others damned, build walls to protect themselves from foreign truths, laugh at the pitiful infidels and stand with their pitchforks ready to ride into battle against them.

Renouncing arrogant religious certitude does not mean giving up our faith, our belief, our convictions. Not at all.

Rather, it means acknowledging that those convictions may not exhaust divine realities. It means leaving ourselves open to the idea that we have more to learn, more to understand.

--Bill Tammeus