Socratic questioning can shatter religious complacency and force genuine self-examination

Evidence

A lot of kids go through similar improvised theological discussions at some point in their college lives, but few find themselves as transformed as Rami did that night. He would emerge a changed person. “It was at that point I realized: Man! There’s a lot of stuff I’m missing, even though I’m pretty religious,” he later told me. “I mean, I’m praying and stuff like that. But for the first time I felt that I didn’t know how to convey what my beliefs were.” — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 867

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• XREF: connects to: The very act of questioning presupposes the possibility of non-being.; Bella Cohen’s Socratic questioning drilled literary comprehension into her children — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 152