Theology, Religion, Metaphysics
Modern Malaise Due To The Forgetting of Being Declaration of Independence from the Secular Order Sacramentum Mundi The following was submitted to the Viewpoint section of the Daily Bruin and published on October 3, 2006: Real Unifying Faith “Religion is a personal thing… it is a choice for each individual to make.” Those of us who’ve spent any time at UCLA have heard that over and over, and you could have read it in the Viewpoint on Sept. 24, 2006 under the title, “Amid religious diversity, belief an individual choice.” This is the highest and most universal moral of on-campus religion. To a majority, faith is like hating carrots or loving broccoli: it has nothing at all to do with true or false, right or wrong. True and false are the realm of science; religious statements are not subject to uncompromising rules of logic as are scientific theories like gravity. But let’s consider the implications of a faith that is purely personal. If faith is nothing more than a personal choice, ...