"I don't think there is an example. My belief in Jesus did not seem rational or scientific, and yet there was nothing I could do to separate myself from this belief." - Donal Miller, in Blue Like Jazz.
I the book Blue like Jazz, Donal Miller takes Christian theology, spirituality, faith, which ever word works best for you, and simplifies it down to 20 topics a fifth grader could understand. In chapter 5, entitled Penguin Sex, he talks about the rationality, or lack thereof, of Christianity. Penguins are mentioned because when they mate the female lays the egg, gives it to the male, and then up and leaves, just like that. And for about a month or so the males just sit around, sit on the egg, and wait for it to hatch. When that month comes to an end the females, by some unknown feeling, head back to their husbands (if you can call them husbands.) They always make it back the day their egg hatches, not one day too late.
We, as Christians, have an unknown feeling not to much different from that of a penguin. Except ours tells us to follow Jesus, we have no rational reason behind it. "I don't think you can explain Christian faith either. It's a mystery. It can't be explained, and yet it is beautiful and true. It's something you feel, it comes from the soul."
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