Fundamentalist Christians lump the likes of me with atheists, and atheists lump me with fundamentalists. What's a non-literalist Christian to do?
Wolf's article shed no new light on the faith-science controversy. So some PhDs are outspoken on the topic? Big deal; I've got more at least as many in my small suburban Boston Lutheran congregation than you do in your article, and I dare say I don't have to look very far to find many more in other faith communities. Does anyone really think they, as well as the rest of us, understand our inherited, shared stories at face value? That we are not informed by them at various levels of meaning?
A good atheist might well wonder what's the point of our stories? While pondering that, they should keep in mind how much atheist communities have contributed to the world. Consider all the atheist hospitals that have been constructed, the atheist soup kitchens and shelters, all the atheists who visit the sick and comfort those in mourning, the atheist meeting places where the atheist community gather to celebrate weddings and births.
Teaching the blind to see is hard work, especially when all they position themselves to see is the inner surface of their large intestine. If you want to understand how those of us who hold advanced degrees in science, medicine, and engineering can at the same time believe in God, another word for Whom is Love,all you have to do is look and see.
Rick SchrenkerNorth Reading, MA
