How, after all, does it function in a modern world? Is it not possible to interrogate its claims, locate it in Yet if religion’s sheer antiquity is the essence of its appeal,Īs if the past carries its own sanction, it is embraced by those who inhabit a secular present, two languages dangerouslyĬo-existing. ![]() Sense a trial sent to test the true mettle of belief. There are those, of course, who cling to that earlyįaith even as they conduct a continuing dialogue with themselves – doubt, of course, being a rite of passage, in some Not without some truth even as there is a feeling of menace about it, as if a soul were thereby kidnapped, the ransom to be Ignatius of Loyola who said, ‘Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man,’ surely a claim According to Voltaire, perhaps not the best of sources in the circumstances, it was ![]() ![]() With the years, however, it can seem to some a betrayal of the youth when it first bloomed, a confidence The face of loss or calamity, a reassuring structure, a bolt hole, the source of an unexamined confidence, a steady heartbeat Later, it may be clung to, not without a certain strain of nostalgia, a resort in The young, inherited, like political loyalties, from parents, a sudden explanation for a world still strange, a grid to lay
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