Who is truly radical?

Anthony Alcantara

14 Dec 2025

Can believing in God amid secularism, individualism, empiricism, rationalism, and all those isms be considered more radical and heretical these days?

It’s against reason. It defies logic. It is impractical.

Who is more radical? The one who attacks religion as nonsense? Or the one who embraces the divine that is wrapped in mystery and paradox, and, through faith and the practice of that faith, is imbued with virtues and a desire to do good to others?

Who is more revolutionary and unconventional?

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