Great worthwhile discussion. This Priest clearly demonstrates the ability we have to compartmentalize faith from logic, reason and science. The persistence of faith in a God concept is deep and unmovable in most adults who have been indoctrinated in a belief system.
Intelligence alone does not bring one to a skeptical approach to religious training. However, many of us are distancing ourselves from religion and exploring other views of the cosmos as having a purely naturalistic explanation. We see events that were at one time attributed to supernatural causes as merely events we currently do not understand, but one day might with research.
The numbers of skeptics are still small in comparison with the religious, but are growing. The more obvious damage religion does in the world, the more young people start to question the teachings of their parents and church. One day we humans will grow up and out of this.....one can only hope.
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