Jeremy Smith came across a sticker that took a phrase from Star Wars in what was intended to be an atheistic direction:
In Star Wars: A New Hope, Darth Vader says “I find your lack of faith disturbing” to a skeptic of the Force.
Jeremy Smith finds a more positive interpretation of the phrase: religious faith should disturb us, make us uncomfortable, including (perhaps especially) the person whose faith it is.
But even taken in its originally-intended sense as an expression of atheism, the slogan is disturbing. Everyone finds the faith of others disturbing. But few allow themselves to see their own faith – whether it be confidence in ancient writings, or confidence in one’s own critical thinking skills to keep one from falling for scams and bogus claims – as it appears to others.
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