I’ve been mulling a long post in defense of doubt. For the last few months, I’ve watched hard questions and varieties of doubt do a great deal of good among some of my Christian friends, and I’ve been reading Luke’s gospel, which invites itself to be read as (among other things) a prescription for doubt. Luke’s Jesus story, beginning with his opening lines and the Zechariah/Mary story that follows, is about how God rebukes doubt, but also gives grace for it. On the whole, it gives aid to the doubter.
So I was going to write about all that and the strange, vexed role that doubt plays in evangelical Christian culture in general, and how we should harvest the fruits of doubt, and it was going to be fascinating and helpful and, most of all, long.
But then I saw someone post this quote on Twitter today, and realized that my work had been done for me:
“Materialists and madmen have no doubts.” – G.K. Chesterton
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