I wondered how people could be so sure about an historical event that took place nearly 2000 years ago, and I doubted the claims of Christianity. Yet, as I came to see, these objections were really intellectual smoke screens behind which I was hiding, and the real issue was that I wanted to run my own life and thought that I could do a better job of it than God could. I soon discovered I was wrong. We live in an age of skepticism, and the cult of scientism dominates the intellectual landscape in many ways. The strength of these things is beginning to lose their grip on this post-modern world of ours, but they still have a stronghold, especially in academia.
Many people think that the job of the skeptic is to question and doubt everything.
Mark Buchanan writes that he once met a man who told him that he didn't believe the Bible because he was a skeptic. I told you, I'm a skeptic. I don't believe it. That, my friends, is not skepticism. Skepticism and doubt should never be an excuse for evasion or an alibi for laziness.