# An insolvable mystery

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**Category:** Casual Discussion\
**Created:** [November 3, 2025, 5:28am UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/an-insolvable-mystery/2860 "2025-11-03T05:28:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![Literalman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.catholictalk.net/literalman/32/117_2.png) [@Literalman](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/Literalman)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/an-insolvable-mystery/2860/116 "2026-02-07T19:28:43Z")

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> [@mallen](#):
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> If you have faith, no explanation is necessary if you don’t have faith, no explanation is possible

Andrew Klavan wrote something similar in _The Great Good Thing_: “If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough.”

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**Author:** ![MorganPJD](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.catholictalk.net/morganpjd/32/1146_2.png) [@MorganPJD](https://forum.catholictalk.net/u/MorganPJD)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://forum.catholictalk.net/t/an-insolvable-mystery/2860/117 "2026-10-11T12:59:08Z")

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God’s presence is, in terms we can understand, or picture, outside of Time, His Mercy entering into Creation for those, within the boundaries of linear existence, to live in a way which shows “praise and honour to God” (as one member of YouTube put it, when speaking of one of two of Vivaldi’s available _‘Gloria in Excelsis Deo’_ compositions, and hence, the double-apostrophes) and all of that which it encompasses.

Life on Earth seems short yet is enough time to have shown at least some smidgen of respect towards one’s neighbour and glimmer of hope for a more idyllic horizon.

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