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This weekend, Jon Stewart is holding “a rally to restore sanity” on the mall, two months after Glenn Beck’s religion-infused “Restoring Honor” rally. Beck said he was called by God to hold the rally. Now atheist groups are planning to use Stewart’s event to promote “reason.” Are “reason” and “sanity” the opposite of religious belief? Is taking religion out of the political debate the answer for restoring reason? Or do we need more faith?
There are moments in history and in our lives when faith is the only sane and rational attitude to assume. There are moments of absolute absurdity when there is no meaning, no sense and we find ourselves trapped inside a nihilistic universe where religion is a lie, morality is silent and human reason is not reasonable enough.
At these moments, we lean on, stand on, and trust in a transcendence that is able to take us beyond the madness. We rely on a God who knows the language of our tears and has the capacity to translate moans and groans into an intelligible request. And God answers with God’s own presence.Thus, it is a mistake to think that reason and sanity are opposite from religious belief. We need more faith in our politics and in our public discourse. We need a faith that allows us to imagine a better world. Faith begins where reason ends. “To whom does one pray from the bowels of a slave ship?” African-American historian of religion Charles Long asks this question in an essay “Passage and Prayer.” Does one pray to the gods of Africa or to the gods of the people who control the slave ships?Long argues that African-American religion begins at this moment. I say that African-American religion begins in Africa, and the essence of that faith is not the question of the existence of God, but the question of the presence of intermediary gods in our lives, many of whom, having lived as human beings, know human suffering. The essence of the faith is the presence that lives both inside the individual and beyond him. It is a presence that not only gives one the strength to endure hell on earth, but also helps one to hold on to one’s human dignity in the process.
We can divide the relationship between faith and reason into at least three paradigmatic and epochal moments – premodern, modern, postmodern. The premodern is faith in faith. Religious traditions perform an explanatory function. The modern is faith in reason. Science explains. The postmodern is faith in doubt. Here a hermeneutic of suspicion challenges any meta-narrative, religious or scientific. The postmodern mind knows that every form of knowledge serves someone’s interests and advantage, that any overarching story necessarily leaves something or someone out. There is center and margin. What and who are on the margins of the story and why?
In Long’s essay, he points out the contradiction of the modernist moment. In “the Atlantic world of modernity,” Europeans were seeking freedom and Africans were forced into slavery. Religion for the African became “a basic turning of the soul toward another defining reality.” One reality sought to strip the Africans of their humanity and turn them into things, property, a commodity. Another reality, the reality of
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