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Article: The idol of progress: the pursuit of knowledge was his true faith. And in many ways, it remains ours today.(Fritz Haber)
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- Sojourners Magazine
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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It's December 2005, in a darkened New York theater. Onstage, it's 100 years ago, in Germany.
"Why is it you want to be baptized?" a pastor asks the man who has just stepped into his church. The visitor struggles to answer. He's Jewish, and he's converting to Christianity because he is ambitious: Jews face professional obstacles, and he wishes to remove them.
But that's not the reason that the pastor wants to hear. The man, refusing to profess a faith he cannot honestly claim, turns to leave. The pastor stops him. "Tell me," he asks. "What is it you believe?" And the visitor turns, pauses, and replies: "I believe in science."
He then launches ...