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The Anchoress raises a good point: many people fear exploring Religion — Christianity especially — too closely, for fear that in so doing they might encounter something which would force them to change their thinking, and perhaps even require them to acknowledge that something exists “beyond” them. The human illusions of permanence and control are difficult ways of thinking to overcome, even when one comes face to face with the Creator God who is above all other things; for many, it is too frightening a concept to dwell on.

This is, perhaps, especially true both of the Incarnation of Christ and of the Eucharist, which is a direct revelation and experience of Him.

[The human being, in all ages of history,] resists the consequence of the mystery made flesh, for if this Event is true, then all aspects of life, including the sensible and the social, must revolve around it. And it is precisely man’s perception of being undermined, no longer being the measure of his own self, that places him in the position of refusal.

The Anchoress notes a strange thing: doubt is almost sacrosanct to the skeptic and the agnostic, and yet doubt itself must not be cast into doubt. It is perhaps fortunate, then, that Christ will patiently grant people many chances to overcome their fear of certainity.

~ by Kenneth on July 2, 2008.