Mac McCann is a student at UT-Austin. He doesn't like people of faith. He says that "religion protects itself from criticism by claiming the support of God and encouraging faith, which inherently discourages learning." I'm not sure where he came up with that brilliant idea, but I have known of many great men and women of faith who were among the most learned individuals the world has ever know.
Mac goes on to say, "By glorifying faith, we glorify what we don't know; by glorifying learning, on the other hand, we glorify discovering what we don't know." I'm not sure what Mac means by that, but I challenge him to show me a scripture that says one has to be ignorant to have faith.
Mac insists he is not opposed to religion. He says he is opposed to "unjustified certainty." Let me put your mind at ease, Mac. Those of us who follow Jesus follow Him through justified certainty . . . "For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast . . . these things are written unto you that ye may know that ye have eternal life." Be careful, Mac, of boasting of your learned superiority. It smacks of unjustified certainty.
"What Easter means to us." The Dallas Morning News; April 29, 2014; p. 19A.
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