Why Faith Matters, by H.W. Crocker III

You know you’ve married well when you ask your wife what she thinks about the “archaic” 1864 Arizona abortion law and she says, “Most excellent.” (She’s from California.) To the law’s critics, the U.S. Constitution must be even more archaic, and the Ten Commandments positively primeval (or, as they might say, “handed down by a mythological ‘flying spaghetti monster’ even decades before”).

All of which raises a familiar question, evident to any observer of American politics today. Why is it that Christian people of faith are so much more rational and reasonable than the faithless. The faithful don’t deny biology (when it comes to sex). They don’t deny the laws of grammar (when it comes to gender). And they have a misguided but charming desire to reason with their opponents. Why is that? …