Why We Trust Others
Google Image Due to time restraints caused by my moving out-of-state, Skeptical Faith blogs for the next few weeks will be, as they say in show biz, "encore presentations." This one was published in 2021. Some conservatives wouldn’t be caught dead reading the New York Times. Some liberals wouldn’t watch Fox News if their lives depended on it. More and more, we seem to be caught in a morass of conflict, seemingly arising from seeing the same reality in two startlingly different ways. And a lot of it, I believe, has to do with a lack of trust, which is both the cause and effect of the conflict. And it’s not just in politics. The lack of trust is present in families, churches, businesses, the military, the police – in virtually every sector of life. We increasingly judge each other according to our wildly different perceptions of reality. How We Feel David Brooks, the New York Times columnist who was considered a conservative until the Trump era, believes it’s not so muc...