The West was built on doubt. When it fails us, when we slip into the blinkered certainty of ideology and out of erratic but beneficial advances of democracy, we lose the best of ourselves. Without doubt we stagnate.
Those of us willing to acknowledge the role of Judaeo-Christian beliefs in shaping Western civilisation know well the role of doubt.
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