The Christian thinks reason is a tool given to us by god to help us find god; and specifically the Christian God, and no other.
Reason, as “believers” see it, is therefore like a black light that allows us to see certain things that can only be seen when that light is turned on. The belief that reason is something intended and designed to help us find god, however, is itself a pure act of faith. For there is nothing in reason that assures us that that is what reason is for, and plenty in reason that confirms how dangerous and often wrong we are whenever we start with such an assumption.
God didn’t put all those things in broad daylight for all to see equally without the need for this light, however, so the Christian also believes, because God loves us so much that he wanted us to save our soul from hell.
And he wanted to us to save our souls from hell, by seeing if we could prove just how much we really love him, through our willingness to devote our lives to finding the right religion with which we can do so the best, despite our sinfully flawed nature, in a haystack of religions that is as big as the human mind, and is made up of a countess number of poor substitutes and plain falsehoods.
But worst of all, “believers” seem to only to sift through that haystack of religions looking for god like heroin addicts sifting through a dumpster of dirty needles for a fix.
Reason, as “believers” see it, is therefore like a black light that allows us to see certain things that can only be seen when that light is turned on. The belief that reason is something intended and designed to help us find god, however, is itself a pure act of faith. For there is nothing in reason that assures us that that is what reason is for, and plenty in reason that confirms how dangerous and often wrong we are whenever we start with such an assumption.
God didn’t put all those things in broad daylight for all to see equally without the need for this light, however, so the Christian also believes, because God loves us so much that he wanted us to save our soul from hell.
And he wanted to us to save our souls from hell, by seeing if we could prove just how much we really love him, through our willingness to devote our lives to finding the right religion with which we can do so the best, despite our sinfully flawed nature, in a haystack of religions that is as big as the human mind, and is made up of a countess number of poor substitutes and plain falsehoods.
But worst of all, “believers” seem to only to sift through that haystack of religions looking for god like heroin addicts sifting through a dumpster of dirty needles for a fix.
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