Meet an atheist ... who believes in God [View all]
Opinion by Frank Schaeffer, special to CNN
June 10th, 2014
02:40 PM ET
... Maybe we need a new category other than theism, atheism or agnosticism that takes paradox and unknowing into account. Take me, I am an atheist who believes in God ... I believe that life evolved by natural selection. I believe that evolutionary psychology explains away altruism and debunks love, and that brain chemistry undermines the illusion of free will and personhood ... It seems to me that there is an offstage and an onstage quality to my existence. I live onstage, but I sense another crew working offstage. Sometimes I hear their voices “singing” in a way that’s as eerily beautiful as the offstage chorus in an opera ... Don’t delude yourself: There are no ultimate reasons for anything, just circumstances. If you want to be sure you have "the truth" about yourself and our universe, then prepare to go mad. Or prepare to turn off your brain and cling to some form or other of fundamentalism, whether religious or secular ...
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2014/06/10/meet-an-atheist-who-believes-in-god/
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| Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals | |
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| When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said: Let us pray. We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land | |
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| Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning | |
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| Religion: it's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion | |
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| I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it | |
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| Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? | |
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| I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use | |
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| There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results | |
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| Man is a reasoning animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute | |
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| Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality | |
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