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Let he who has no irrational belief cast the first stone

Law professor Rick Hills has a really interesting post describing how many secular people view religious believers:Just a few days ago, I was discussing a mutual friend with a former colleague. The latter was astonished by our mutual friend?s Christianity: ?What?s up with that?!? he exclaimed, expressing bewilderment and even nervousness at the thought that a well-regarded ? indeed, by academic standards, famous ? professor could believe in the existence and beneficence of an omniscient and omnipotent God. If was as if our Christian friend had declared that the world was flat or was dabbling in alchemy. My former colleague even worried that, if a serious academic could believe in God, he was capable of believing in, or attempting, anything -- attempting to walk across the East River unaided by a water taxi, gunning down students in hallways, speaking in tongues at a faculty meeting, you name it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 19, 2008 (boomark / email).