RE: Interesting Story
May 20, 2009 at 8:25 pm
(This post was last modified: May 20, 2009 at 8:31 pm by ghostlighter.)
ADRIAN,
You make an interesting point about gnostic atheism involving faith. Yes, perhaps, in some degrees a gnostic atheist has "faith", but do you remember the old evangelist's argument "you have faith that the sun comes up every morning dont you?" Well, no because I SEE the sun. It happens quite regularly that the sun beams up over the eastern horizon, passes over the sky and sinks into the western landscapes. This is not faith, this is observation. And when I awake each day into this world and look, each and every day I see that God is not at work here. There is something way deeper and way more amazing at work here. It is wild and unrestricted and its spirit is unbridled and present in the forces of nature and alive in the swirling galxies of the cosmos, a great furnace burning hot into the icy spans of space-time. To call this force God (a mere figure of human conception, or rather MISconception) would not do it justice. I know your comment wasn't aimed at me but I just couldn't help chiming in. All that being said I'm still a bit agnostic myself. I keep an open mind but it's kind of like saying well I know that Santa Claus doesn't exist but maybe there is some OTHER kind of elf-like rosy-cheeked being in arctic who dispenses presents but we just can't be sure if he exists or not.
You make an interesting point about gnostic atheism involving faith. Yes, perhaps, in some degrees a gnostic atheist has "faith", but do you remember the old evangelist's argument "you have faith that the sun comes up every morning dont you?" Well, no because I SEE the sun. It happens quite regularly that the sun beams up over the eastern horizon, passes over the sky and sinks into the western landscapes. This is not faith, this is observation. And when I awake each day into this world and look, each and every day I see that God is not at work here. There is something way deeper and way more amazing at work here. It is wild and unrestricted and its spirit is unbridled and present in the forces of nature and alive in the swirling galxies of the cosmos, a great furnace burning hot into the icy spans of space-time. To call this force God (a mere figure of human conception, or rather MISconception) would not do it justice. I know your comment wasn't aimed at me but I just couldn't help chiming in. All that being said I'm still a bit agnostic myself. I keep an open mind but it's kind of like saying well I know that Santa Claus doesn't exist but maybe there is some OTHER kind of elf-like rosy-cheeked being in arctic who dispenses presents but we just can't be sure if he exists or not.
