Medieval Civilization: Millennia in Microcosm Week 176

Kenneth Smith argues that Christian fideism, like modern consumerism and scientism, cultivates an artificial narrowness of mind—an engineered “cloud of unknowing” that replaces self-knowledge and philosophical inquiry with self-righteous certainty, emotionalism, and culturally reinforced ignorance. By elevating unexamined belief into a virtue, this mentality suppresses genuine critical thought and moral discernment, producing a civilization that confuses subjective comfort with truth while systematically excluding deeper, unsettling realities.

E. Faith Understood as a Vice

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