/lit/ - Literature

>Religious skepticism claims that it is the guardian of human happiness. But in fact it stems from the fear of making a mistake, and is based on its own form of spiritual paralysis and even despair. The human being is alive in seeking the truth and finding new and creative ways to love selflessly. Imprisoned in our pleasures and limited sense of understanding, we grow old and self-referential.

>Reasonable openness to God, then, is a source of spiritual youth in any person or culture. It maintains in us a sense of investigation, wonder, cumulative wisdom, and knowledge in the service of love. Refusal of the mystery of God makes us the unique masters of ourselves, but also imprisons us within the ascetical contraints of our own banal finitude.

>The privilege of the educated and wealthy is to be able to control their sense of wonder before the mystery of human existence, and to retreat into their own domain of competency and control. Often their inferiors do not have this luxury and are therefore more innately disposed to accept dependence upon God.