Doctrinal Probabilities

Taking off the existential pressure to be entirely certain or floating in mystery.

There’s a catch-22 in many deconstruction stories, certainly in mine. One of the catalysts for deconstruction is the accumulation of questions in a community that all but requires you to have full certainty in your beliefs as a sign of how strong your faith is. Strong faith is equated with certainty in particular doctrines (or, increasingly, positions i…