"The opposite of faith is...."

"The opposite of faith is...."





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Eight Kudos and a Keltic pretzel if your answer is the same as the great mystic St. Anne Lamott..


who said:

"The oppposite of faith is

not doubt,

but certainty...


..Certainty is missing the point entirely. Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and the discomfort and letting it be there until some light returns."
"Plan B," p, 256)

Internet Monk is in favor of "Being honest with doubt."

St. Paul (the Irish one)..

(the one who said:

"Gospel musicians...can't sing about their doubt..")
(hear him say it here)

once sang with conviction: "Like a preacher needs pain.....Like faith needs a doubt":

See also:

• Praying with Pink Floyd
• "The Lord Be With You...Even When He’s Not"