In this age of absolute doubt, where are we supposed to find our faith? And it comes, ironically enough, from Christianity itself, because Christianity started with the premise that everything in the world is understandable, it is discoverable, that we can figure out how the world works.
00:00:00.000This requested video comes from Jochen, and it's a question I think that most of us, all of us actually, but only some of us are aware that we're dealing with it.
00:00:15.280It's a very omnipresent question. In this age of absolute doubt, what are we supposed to believe in? Where are we supposed to find our faith?
00:00:30.000And it comes, the question comes, ironically enough, from Christianity itself, because Christianity started, it started with the premise, the promise that everything in the world is understandable, it is discoverable, that we can figure out how the world works.
00:00:56.280You know, like, if you've done any, I know I use the auto mechanics metaphor quite a bit, but this is one of the things I find, because when I go in to fix my car, when my car's broken, and I have to fix it, well, it's a very depressing feeling.
00:01:12.840It's, while the car's being fixed, you don't have transportation. You know, it almost feels like the universe could potentially come to an end if you can't fix the car.
00:01:24.560And when you go to fix it, you don't know exactly what the problem is. You might have a really good guess, you might have some thoughts as to what you could do, but you don't know how to fix the problem.
00:01:34.740And so this is, anytime I approach it, I know, though, despite this, as much as it worries me, on a deep level, I know I can fix it.
00:01:46.880It's going to be painful. I'm going to bleed. I don't really want to do it. It's going to be mentally difficult, as well as physically difficult, but I know that I can fix it.
00:02:00.100And there is a moment of doubt in the process, but thus far, I have yet to be proven wrong.
00:02:07.160And so this, this confidence that Christendom had, that the physical world was comprehensible, that we could figure it out, that we could, you know, make, that we could develop the scientific method,
00:02:27.000But, ironically enough, this is what taught us to doubt.
00:02:35.460Because this confidence that we can figure out the world makes us doubt our current understanding of it, our current theory of how the world works.
00:02:47.500And so rather than the old pagan faiths, which said, this is how the world works, just believe in it, go die for your country.
00:03:01.620With Christianity, with the Western civilization, it became about learning to formulate theories, which means doubting your current theory.
00:03:16.120And so this universal era of doubt, you know, this is what Nietzsche and Dostoevsky were writing about.
00:03:31.120They predicted the 20th century quite accurately.
00:03:34.400And so, ironically enough, ironically enough, this is a product of Christendom, a result of that faith that we could find the answers.
00:03:45.780And now, the interesting thing about the present day is that the vast majority of people, certainly the more pig-headed Christians, but especially the atheists,
00:04:03.800they no longer know how to formulate theories, they no longer know how to formulate theories.