"Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them" - Peter Ustinov

Well said Sir Peter.

Do you doubt that Zeus exists?

In the article  here Gary Gutting does something really cool. He gives you the chance to defend the belief that Zeus exists, in an intellectually honest way, against some reasonable objections. The subtle trick is you may or may not realize you have defended your own belief in your own god the same way.
   The really interesting thing is you are fairly certain that Zeus does not in fact exist, but you have successfully defended the possibility. Do you feel that you have successfully defended your own belief? Are others fairly certain that you are wrong?

Doubt that science plays a role in objecting to medical coverage

There is no shortage of conversation surrounding SCOTUS and Hobby Lobby and I will not spend much of my cyber energy on either of those two institutions or corporations or persons. It seems reasonable to me to think that the important topic in all of this is womens health. How it ends up being in the decision making hands of employers, religious as they may be, is difficult for me understand.
    The claim is that Hobby Lobby, being a religious something, does not pay for abortion. If it really is that simple it seems simple enough to read the following quote from this article and see that even if they wanted to avoid such, the items they refuse to cover are not such.

""There is no confusion in the scientific community regarding the mechanisms behind each contraceptive option and the medical community is in agreement that none of them equate to abortion," says Gupta. She adds that making women pay for their own contraception limits their options to less effective methods that ultimately yield more unwanted pregnancies and abortions."

   Clearly there are some things that are unclear to Hobby Lobby which makes me all the more doubtful that they need to be able to refuse to pay for legal medical procedures, treatments, or medications.

I doubt this is any stronger than Kalam

Seems to me that if the very thing you may be arguing against is doubt one of the weakest arguments may be "I know it and you don't". There may be a bit more sophistication in the way that Wartick lays it out but a straightforward articulation of his argument offers little more that personal experience.

   There may be more to this that meets the eye but if anyone sees anything other than the author stacking up more unprovable evidence and calling it more evidence, please let me know.



Move Over, Kalam, Here is the best argument for theism | J.W. Wartick -'Always Have a Reason'

Do they have no doubt religion would make it better?

They didn't ask or didn't make clear what religion folks had in mind as they responded to this Gallup Poll. But the results seem to show that 3/4 of Americans think that more religion would have a positive effect. I haven't figured out the best way to work doubt into this blogpost but I would like to propose the obvious thought experiment. Ignore for now which brand of religion each of the respondents had in mind, we know that 75% of this country is not of one particular faith. Do these people of various faiths think that any and all of the various other faiths would really help the country move in the direction of "better". "Better
" here being defined inside each religions worldview. I would like to know if we just take the 1/4th and give them all the faith of one specific religion, would everyone in the other 3/4ths be satisfied. I doubt it.

Can't take the doubt away

There is plenty of writing and thinking going on regarding truth. Rightly so, truth is important and there to be discovered which is something we might look at in another post or podcast. But the in the public discourse something as concrete as truth seems to get fairly fluid as it is tossed around by one thinker here or there. Truth for one person it is said may not be the truth for another. Frankly that seems to be talking more about opinions than truth most of the time but it does hinder discussion from time to time.
  But doubt I feel is something that cannot be taken away. You cannot define the things that I spend time doubting. That doubt is all mine. Your doubt is all yours and you should hang on to it. Doubt can at times help you find your way in the world, dare I say, better than some truth. Truth will be presented to you by many different people for many different reasons and the best way to know what do with that truth is with DOUBT.