Three Most Important Ideas in Faith, Reason, and Revelation The Human Condition
The Human Condition was caused by original sin. In philosophy the human condition is the situation, or condition, in which every human being finds himself or herself by virtue of being human. Ever since the beginning of time, all men have been drawn to worship some sort of religion whether it was monotheistic or polytheistic. Blaine Pascal talks about the human condition in his book, the Pensees, where he states that all men seek happiness, but do not know how to achieve it. In Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, he says that all people are small and then they die. Buddha's answer for the Human Condition is that all life is suffering.

The Challenges to Faith
There are three major challenges to faith and they are Atheism, Scientism, and Dehumanization. One of the most vocal critics of faith was Fredriech Nietzche, who was an Atheist. He believed that there was no meaning to life that applies to all people, which contrasts our idea of striving for heaven. He said that every society had an Ubermensch or Superman that controlled they the masses thought and acted. He denounced Judaism and Christianity as being worthless for their belief that being humble and weak would get you the farthest in life and after life. In Scientism, the Church had three main stages in its relationship with science. From 500 BC to 1500 AD science and church were completely together. Between 1500 - 1900 AD, people began to question what the Church was teaching in science and began to examine for themselves. From 1900 to present, people listened to the church, but kept science seperate. Science does not give us certitude, it relies on empirical data, and presupposes the uniformity of nature. Dehumanization is about how culture forms us and that whatever is "cool" is how people act. Fr. Kavanaugh saw advertizing of things likes perfumes and clothing as a major challenge of faith/Faith because they use words like temptation and irrisistable and marketed them. They challenge us to act immoral and against our faith/Faith.

Teology
Teology is the study of proving God exists and created the world through logical arguements like the Watch and the Watchmaker, Kalam's Arguement, and the Anthropic Principle. In the Watch and the Watchmaker, someone is walking through the woods and finds a watch. There is no way an object so delicate and particular could just appear in the woods one day, so someone must have made the watch and accidently dropped it there. This says that the universe could not have just appeared, it must have a creator and that creator is God. Kalem's Arguement says that God either created an ever expanding universe goes through a never-ending series of expansions and contractions and there is no God. The Anthropic Principle states that God must have created the universe for human existance to have occured. It took so many things for human existance to come about on earth. If any of these circumstances would have not occurred then human existance would be impossible.