On non-belief and the existence of God

[Michael]

F2R. I don't know if we'll ever know anything for certain. I'm not the best person to talk to about certainty as I rarely have it about anything. Perhaps the only certainly I have is that, at least somewhere, I'm wrong. For me, faith is commitment in the absence of certainty. There's always been a certain agnosticism to my faith. But I also hear this from my friends, the monks. They make an amazing commitment of their life to the monastic way of life, and yet do that in the presence of uncertainty ('doubt', if you will). But I can understand that. I think Keirkergaard understood this all too well - faith requires, and begins with, a risk.