Questioning Faith: Other Cultures, Other Religions

As I summarized in a previous blog, there are a number of reasons people question their faith. Here's a quotation which has long been on my mind:

"Jacob describes a similar childhood experience:
'I would get up very early to study Torah for a
couple of hours before...the morning prayer. On
the way to [temple], I noticed that Muslims were
already praying at the mosque. So I asked myself:
if we're both passionate enough about our religion
to get up while it's still dark--how can I be sure
that my religion is true and theirs is false?'"
--quoted in Teaching Plato in Palestine,
by Carlos Fraenkel, pages 67-68

Note: For a review of this book, see this link.

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