Justifying Doubt

A excerpt from "SCANDALOUS The Cross and Resurrection of Jesus", author - D.A. Carson

Sometimes doubt is grounded in systematic moral choice.  Consider the following passage from the famous writer and social cynic Aldous Huxley in his book Ends and Means.  In this passage, Huxley unpacks themes that, historically, pushed many people to adhere to a philosophy of meaningless, of a valueless world:

For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaningless was essentially an instrument of liberation.  The liberation we desired was simultaneously  liberation from a certain system of morality.  We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom; we objected to the political and economic system because it was unjust.  The supporters of these systems claimed that in some way they embodied the meaning (the Christian meaning, they insisted) of the world.  There was an admirably simple method of confuting these people and at the same time justifying ourselves in our political and erotic revolt: we would deny that the world had any meaning whatsoever.