There is a further ground for doubting the validity of the claims made for faith. If faith is really a matter of trusting in and knowing God, one would reasonably expect that it would not merely make its possessors better than they were, but better than other men. Such commitment, trust and knowledge, if they are as represented, ought to make a tremendous impact on the believer's life; they ought to provide a great incentive and boost to his moral endeavours. That this is not obviously the case only confirms the suspicion that all faith may be illusory and misdirected.
(H. J. McCloskey, "The Problem of Evil," Journal of Bible and Religion 30 [July 1962]: 187-97, at 196)
Note from KBJ: Is it your experience that those who have faith in God are morally better than those who do not? Do you agree with McCloskey that faith should make one morally better?
Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D. 