If we continue to read them, either science or scripture, as giving us Truth direct and final, then all their hope and promise turn to dust. Science read as universal truth, not a human telling, degenerates to technological enslavement and people flee it in despair. Scripture read as universal Truth, not a human telling, degenerates to … to what? To Inquisition, Jihad, Holocaust—and people flee it in despair. In either case, certainty abolishes hope, and robs us of renewal.
