day no. 16,882: faith in doubt is the reigning orthodoxy

"There is a poisonous snake which seeks to enter the hearts of us all; it sucks the last drop of lifeblood from our veins.That monster has wrapped itself around our age and crept into its breast — addiction to doubt. I have seen its victims, have seen the enervated souls, the weak of heart who float along with the crowd, powerless to resist the tide, people who know only the momentary flush of excitement but are inwardly dying so that only a dissembling life can, for the moment, conceal their spiritual death... Modernism is a fata morgana in the Christian domain." — Abraham Kuyper, 1871

The modern mind takes pride in not knowing. So much so, it attempts to doubt everything other than itself. The only thing which can be known is what the knower wants to retain or finds useful at any particular moment. It takes advantage of what others continue to know while claiming the advantage of being free from their restraints. It claims intellectual superiority in the form of intellectual fluidity. It can know whatever it likes whenever it likes and not be constrained by what others continue to have to know. Modernism is a fairy castle erected by witchcraft. It is wish fulfillment incarnate. It is insidious and serpentine.

In short, faith in doubt is the reigning orthodoxy of the spirit of the age and its acolytes are legion.