WHY DO YOU NOT WANT TO? It was interesting to me (talking to a brother again) how it is not really that some people do not believe in God, it is that they do not want to. He was talking about the filing cabinet of memories made up from experiences in life, stimulation, information, perceptions that we file away from birth that form our presupposition (what we suppose to be true) upon which we base our world view, what we see and how we see it. Don’t I have good company? Must be I attract these types. I’m so glad about this. Imagine being a Steve Hofmeyerite. He said to me that there is no end to the amount of time you can talk to an atheist debating ‘facts’ and ‘proof’ and ‘evidence’ and no end to the repetition by which you will tell him that it is all around you, why? He doesn’t want to believe it. And the correct question to ask him is not why there is no God but why he wants to believe there is no One. He will tell me that somewhere back there in the filing cabinet of his mind you will find the reason why he feels that way and the reason why he looks for proof and evidence and facts and substantiation for his view, no matter what other thing you have to say. In this sense he is blind to anything else that stands against what he wants to believe. And you can say the same for believers who are as blind and as deaf to seeing or hearing anything they don’t want to believe. You may say that a Christian believes in creation because he wants to believe in creation and wants to believe in a God of creation. That is his choice and it is the choice of the unbeliever also not to believe. But the question remains, why do you not want to believe? What little thing happened back there in the memory, in the filing cabinet, the thing that made Hitler later commit the world to 40 million deaths and 6 million of them Jews? What little hurt, offense, slight, insult, that would regurgitate later to bring hell and mayhem, blood and slaughter and every other kind of conceivable madness on an otherwise sane planet? Yip, I quote again what someone else has just said, “The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” It all depends on your worldview, what you want to believe, not what you do or don’t, and why you don’t want to answer that question.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:18:25 +0000
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