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Faith in search of understanding

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Casey, Gerard 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/5412
Date Issued
June 2003
Date Available
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Abstract
From the age of about fourteen my religious faith was marked by increasing intensity, a common enough teenage experience. At the same time, however, I was coming to have doubts, doubts that I found difficult to express since I didn’t possess the requisite vocabulary or ideas, nor did I have those around me with whom I could discuss such matters. When I was sixteen I discovered Bertrand Russell’s Why I’m not a Christian. On reading this book all the inchoate questions I had suddenly became clear. Russell’s book acted like sulphuric acid on the grounds of my faith; I found that they could not stand up to rational criticism so I abandoned my faith and, for the next 14 years or so, I was a convinced atheist—an atheist, note, not an agnostic for I subscribed to the principle that if there was no evidence for a belief system then that constituted evidence for its negation.
Type of Material
Book Chapter
Publisher
The Liffey Press
Copyright (Published Version)
2003 the author
Keywords
  • Religion

  • Philosophy

  • Catholic Church

  • Scepticism

Web versions
http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/staff/casey/FaiSofU.pdf
Language
English
Status of Item
Not peer reviewed
Part of
Stephen J. Costello (eds.). Credo: Faith and Philosophy in Contemporary Ireland
ISBN
1-904148-30-1
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
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