Can faith alone ever be sufficient?

[Bretton Garcia]

20. Yes it is.

1) "Radical Acceptance" (1993) is, deep down, a form of fatalism. Which 2) means "accepting" that there are many things we can't change. And yet the whole history of science tells us that many limitations we thought were timeless, permanent barriers - like diseases - could in fact be cured.

And in fact, 3) the core of motherly advice to children, assumes rightly, that much of their bad behavior can be cured. Likewise, 4) formal education assumes that much bad behavior is occasioned by animal emotions; that can to a large extent replaced by rationality.

And 5) to a large extent, history, observable human progress, suggests that the radical pessimism of Radical Acceptance does not seem justified.