Woman on CNN tells Wolf " um i am actually a Atheist"

[austinlw]

247. That's where I am too.

I believe there is a primal intelligence (for lack of a better term) in the universe that is behind the laws of math and physics. Humans often call this primal intelligence "God" or the "Universe" or "Allah" or whatever. Many folks imagine God in their own image. Some seem to believe that this God directs tornadoes to kill some specific humans, maim others, and allow others to be spared from injury. Same with war. I recognize that I don't know enough to know how much of this is true or untrue. However, what I observe and believe is true is that we humans are still at such an elementary stage of evolutionary development that we don't know enough to say much of anything definitive about God, the Universe, the Force, or whatever one wants to call IT. And in my view it takes more faith to be an atheist than to be anything else - particularly when confronted by self-sacrificing LOVE, like the firefighters and police running toward danger or a teacher shielding elementary students with their bodies. People can neither prove that this primal intelligence exists or doesn't exist. 2 people can look at the same event - 1 says it was caused by God, the other says it was caused by physical atmospheric forces. To me both can be true at once.

I also recognize that people often have a tendency to try to categorize others for their own purposes - atheist, agnostic, Christian, etc. It's simpler to stick a label on someone and put them on the shelf with others they have categorized likewise, so they can pretend to understand what's going on. So when someone says that this statement is agnostic, another is atheist, another something else, then says that means you're inconsistent with your own beliefs. NO, maybe their categories need to be reexamined because maybe the universe is full of paradoxes that we can describe but can't adequately explain due to the fact that we humans are fairly primitive critters.

By the way, the label that most accurately describes me is "panentheistic universalist".