The less you know, the more you believe.

This is a quotation by Bono that I found and it struck me because it is something I have noticed too, and it bothers me.

I am bothered to juxtipose knowledge and faith, and yet I wrestle with that relationship myself. I do not want to believe in the "God of the gaps," meaning I use God for the explanation of what I do not know. Of course, this means God becomes smaller as my knowledge increases. That is just dumb. And yet, I find that my spiritual life does take a toll when I find other language to express life phenonmenon with...for example, when psychology explains what's going on in people's life, then it becomes less of a solution to pray over it and more of a solution to go to therapy and actively work towards healing.

Why does knowledge and beleif continue to be conflict? What does the Tree of knowledge and the fact that humans weren't supposed to taste of it, but they did, and this changed everything and broke their relationship with God...what does that say to the enlightened Christian today? Surely it does not say--knowledge will ruin your relationship with God...maybe its the illusion of knowledge. Maybe its the curse that we think that our knowledge is true knowledge--but we lack the perfect wisdom, etc... to understand and use knowledge the way that only God can. And so we do things like i am describing...think that our explanations eliminate the mystery-=-the God.

The less you know, the more you believe.
And yet, paradoxically, the more you know, the more you know how little you know, and so the more you can believe.