Losing Faith: When Belief is all of Religion (Thudfactor)
Faith is where you start. If it is where you stop, then you are not religious. You are a member of a political movement. And when that movement fails you, as it did Lobdell and Mother Theresa and who knows who the hell else, you can get paralyzed with doubt. At that point, perhaps your doubt becomes so deep you refuse to accept the validity of your own experiences, the value of your own actions. And you lose the inquisitiveness which fosters wisdom and spiritual growth. You say “this is all there is,” and “even the things that have happened to me I can not believe.” I think you get stuck, and I think you get bitter.
