Certain Freedoms

Philosophers, spiritual aspirants and scientists have certain freedoms, not permitted in the halls of religion and politics. They're able to hold multiple contradictory theories at once, without feeling conflicted. They comfortably embrace a quest for the honest truth, at whatever cost to their history and suppositions. They're strengthened by knowing that unquestioning commitment is fool hearty and disempowering. They see being proven wrong or shown another way, as welcomed progress. They understand that faith can, and does, thrive in the absence of fixed belief. And they're allowed, in fact, expected to think and judge for themselves.