A critique of 'deconstructing faith'.
I have seen more than once this idea of someone 'deconstructing' their faith, and while I'm not entirely sure how this term is being used among those using it in this way (for I am familiar with the term coming from Jaques Derrida's deconstructionism, which is a kind of approach to interpreting texts, namely, deliberately interpreting them in such a way as to find contradictions inherent within them, pulling at the seems of the text, as it were, so as to 'show' how it unravels from within itself) but the idea of deconstructing one's 'faith' seems to me to require either that the term is not bieng used in the Derridian sense, or else if it is being used that way, that it is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of what faith is; but even if it's not being used in the Derridian way, it still seems to be rooted in a misunderstanding of the nature of faith, for faith isn't a construct, but rather a virtue. The issue in either case is that the...