Also The Mysterious Stranger.
Those three were required reading in Sacred Studies when I was in school.
Was that the one that included the
War Prayer? A classic.
"To question is the answer" is a catch-phrase from my church (Unitarian-Universalist). It has been joked that you can tell when a militant UU has been there by the burning question mark in your front yard. I've also seen a "Super-UU" emblem (picture, for a moment, the "Super-Jew" t-shirt worn by Seth Rogan early in
Funny People, a blue shirt with a red Magan-David on the chest, yellow background, and a red "S" inside it), the Superman emblem but with a question mark replacing the "S". I do truly believe that everybody, regardless of what religion they are, must continually question what they believe.
Not in order to question their religion, but rather in order to question their own personal misunderstanding of their religion so that they might be able to correct that misunderstanding. That includes questioning their preconceptions, such as listening to a sanitized war prayer without once actually contemplating exactly what kind of and degree of physical mayhem they are asking for.
It is only by questioning that we can learn and grow. And it takes more than a life-time.
Edited by dwise1, : To Question Is The Answer