Taken on Faith

[nanonano]

Here is my entry for prompt #17 for mini_nanowrimo for the visual prompt. I've changed fandoms again to one of my newer ones "Bones". I've never tried to write Brennan before. Oddly I find I have a similar attitude to her about faith and religion. Spoilers for the latest episode "The Aliens in the Spaceship".

"You have faith, baby."

Faith is irrational. There is no scientific logical reason for faith. It just exists. You are expected to believe blindly that somehow everything happens for a reason or that we're intended for some greater purpose.

I just can't make that kind of giant leap. My brain doesn't operate that way. Give me science. Give me facts. Give me solid irrefutable proof I can see in the lab, not suppositions or intuition. Show me how this bone fragment corresponds to that injury or how this bug places the scene of the crime. I understand that kind of trust, because I know the abilities of my team. I've trained most of them. I've seen what they can do. Just like I knew Booth would save me from the Grave Digger.

Booth defies logic. He is a rational man, yet he has faith. He doesn't question it. It's just a part of who he is. He goes to church every Sunday, partly because he was raised Catholic, but because he honestly in what it means. Every Sunday he sits like he is now, head bent in prayer. What is he thinking? I've studied religions, anthropologically speaking. I understand the significance of ritual, how he crosses himself or handles his rosary. But I don't understand the emotion behind those rituals. They just seem like rote movements to me. I don't understand why his belief has never wavered.

How can you have faith when everything tells you not to?

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Interesting piece...nicely done :)