FRED Talks

Our esteemed speakers with their finished drawings to wrap up the first year of FREDTalks!

“In philosophy, especially, I found that most philosophers are atheists or agnostics, and there is a lot of hostility toward religion… As I discovered this early on, I wondered more and more, “Okay, does this mean that by choosing to study this field I am inevitably going to go down the same track and I will discover, just like all these other philosophy people, that when it comes down to it, Christianity is just this empty set of myths? But I told myself that since I was committed to the truth above all, I should just keep looking. So in my classes I would be assigned readings by Richard Dawkins or Nietzsche or other people who were quite against Christianity, and even though one of my friends told me, “Just don’t read any of that; if you want to keep your faith it’s better to avoid it,” I thought, If this thing is true—if Christianity is describing reality, then it should withstand all this pressure from the outside world, right? It shouldn’t be the case that you have to choose between being smart or rational and having faith in God, if God actually exists. So I read these things, compared and contrasted, and I was really impressed that throughout my past three and a half years at Princeton, once I really began this intellectual investigation into something that just came from my childhood, I have found that the case for Christianity is so robust.” -Ruby Shao '17 in last night's FREDTalk, now available for viewing on our main page

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