If someone asked why you accept the claims of the Catholic faith, what would your answer be? Atheists and agnostics can present formidable arguments, and it is good to engage such claims so as to deepen our own. I was attracted to the union of faith and reason, which has powerful explanatory power. This provides a framework for the subjective experiences of mystery, a framework that exists because so many others over such long periods of time also partake of mystery and experience. A moral order in the Personhood of Christ is necessary to complete a fractured humanity, whose grace completes nature and whose presence fulfills myth. Variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the unpredictability and messiness of humanity – we are these and we need these, far more than the cold harmony of utility.
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