Religious Faith may seem superfluous
Religious Faith may seem superfluous
We can not exist without Faith in the physical world around us;
our cars and cycles, the walls of our houses or offices.
We need equal stability in our mutual relationships.
Thus earthquakes and divorce have similar effects.
We do need our principles, moral boundaries, guidelines.
Without them life becomes a mess, incomprehensible
for we can not predict the behaviour of others
nor modify our reaction to their need.
Perhaps these guidelines, boundaries, are endorsed by religion,
By the teaching of Jesus and of other ancient savants,
but they also surface in less religious settings;
Faith Renewed
Faith Renewed
Religions, whatever their form, provide firm principles, stability.
Rules and boundaries are defined; ways of acting and behaviour.
Those rules and boundaries are said to have been defined,
though some medium of authoritive communication,
in spoken, written or even human form,
by the God of that religion.
When renewal of faith presumes the rectitude
of the conclusions others have drawn,
we are merely hiding, fearfully,
behind protective boundaries
Is it in accepting such constraints that our faith is ratified
or by challenging the divinity of their presumptions?