User:Triathematician/Faith

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing thereof. --Blaise Pascal

About my faith

I am a mathematician by profession and a skeptic by nature, but science has its limits. Pascal talked a lot about how mankind suffers from a fantastic paradox: we as a species are "great" in what we can accomplish, but "wretched" in our inability to control our own behavior. We can describe all kinds of things in this world, but we can't describe ourselves. We can control all kinds of things in this world, but we can't control ourselves. We can send a man to the moon, but we can't tame the tongue. What's the deal?

The solution is not about rules that we are by nature unable to follow. It's about finding someone to follow, and finding others to walk the journey with us.

I follow Jesus Christ because I was face to face with my own wretchedness and experienced the love of God in a very real and personal manner.

I do not believe that Christianity is about politics or who is ruining the country or whose side God is on. I believe that as a species we frequently try to make up rules about faith and religion, and vastly overcomplicate things. I do not believe that Christianity is about rules, except for perhaps two: love God, love people. It's about relationships, and it's about love.