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Challenge My Beliefs?

Philosophy instructor Richard Reilly talks to students about questioning God.

Far more often than I’d like – for I live and teach in a conservative religious community – students express the notion that it is wrong for me to question God. “Who are we to question God?” they ask. This puzzles me. Strictly speaking, it seems to me that in all my years of teaching I have never once questioned God in the classroom, and this for a very good reason: he or she (the divinity, that is) has not been in the classroom for me to question, at least not in a form that I can talk to! Not that I would likely question the Supreme Being were he or she to appear. Probably, I’d be too busy grovelling with everyone else.

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