Character is More Important than Reason

Character is more important than reason.

You can be smart, but cruel.

You can be stupid, but kind.

 

Religion helps keep the world kind.

So be it if it keeps us a little stupid.

There are plenty of things which we ought not to know.

 

So there’s no question,

I am unequivocally a Christian.

I’ve found the easiest things to believe are often false.

While the more nuanced a thing,

The more it turns out to be true.

Atheism is too easy to believe

Because it’s built on simple premises.

Christianity, on the other hand,

Is too nuanced to set aside and reject.

 

What an Atheist believes with his reason

He is often made presumptuous and a complete jackass.

What a Christian believes by faith,

Often works in practice, and I can have no doubt

That something imaginary cannot be the foundation

Of human cooperation.

There must be a God, because belief in Him is beyond humanity’s ability to comprehend.

Yet, on the outer precipice of Genius,

It can only be so that He exists;

While the inner thoughts of man seem to reject what they cannot understand,

I embrace it because nothing that is true

Is ever so simple as a pithy statement.