An Unbeliever

. . . the solitary explorer who, instead of jumping on all the latest bandwagons at once, is bound to search the existential depths of faith in its silence, its ambiguities, and in those certainties which lie deeper than the bottom of anxiety.
In these depths there are no easy answers, no pat solutions to anything.
It is a kind of submarine life in which faith sometimes mysteriously takes on the aspect of doubt when, in fact, one has to doubt and reject conventional and superstitious surrogates that have taken the place of faith.
On this level, the division between Believer and Unbeliever ceases to be so crystal clear.
It is not that some are all right and others are all wrong:
all are bound to seek in honest perplexity.
Everybody is an Unbeliever more or less!

-- Thomas Merton

"Apologies to an Unbeliever"
in Faith and Violence.

[A] faith that is afraid of other people is no faith at all.

A faith that supports itself by condemning others

is itself condemned by the Gospel.