Peter,

Thanks for an interesting article, although its point would be missed by many, also because of its apologetic tone, as most of the comments here attest to. You might remember that I did not understand quite a few of your other articles, this one I think I did.

Still no proof then Runner?
Apparently it says somewhere in the book "Love thy neighbour as you would yourself".
You don't seem to agree with that one at all.

Faith based belief is just that, whether one is locked in to evolutionist or intelligent interventionism, atheism or communism, or any other ism imperative.
Take for example the story of a completely healthy tribesperson, who having had the bone pointed at him or her, lapses into a torpor and dies in just three days!
No power of the witch doctor/wooden god caused this death; just stone age superstition coupled the power of suggestion and dehydration!
We may well be able to live without food for forty days, but cannot live much beyond two, without water!
Was JC the literal son of God?
Well yes, inasmuch as we all are the sons and daughters of the universe!
Which is all just transformed energy; as indeed, we are!
Can the universe think or make rational decisions?
Well you and I are and can, and are in every sense, an integral part of it! And indeed, recipients of the literally millions of carefully timed steps, that resulted in carbon life forms or us!
Finally, given energy can neither be destroyed or created, it had to exist in some form before the so-called or still highly theoretical big bang!
And if we need something to believe in, to fill a faith based belief "void" in our lives, we could do a lot worse than believing in evidence based, irrefutable truth, (what the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve) (i.e.,fire walking, spontaneous cures or recovery, and apparently possible for each and every one of us, if invested with the, power of belief; our inherent real magic)coupled to the notion of natural justice and a fair go!
Just that much will enable each and everyone of us to thoroughly reject the witch doctor, even the most modern versions, and simply get on doing the best we can with what we have, and indeed, helping those with less, when and if we can, along the way!
Given one day, anyone of us could be stood in those very same shoes, and would want no less, from anybody else!
Rhrosty.

Rhosty, atheism is not a belief.

See the definition from Wikipedia : a lack of belief in God or Gods.
One doesn't need faith to not believe in non-existent deities.

Thank you George. I do not take the comments here seriously. They seem to be generated out of a mass of prejudice and misunderstanding. The worrying thing is that they are so predictable. Same old line, same old tired arguments. I really wonder if they read me at all! I think as soon as they seem my name something engages in their mind and out comes the usual irrational drivel.
Best wishes.
Pete

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« Sells who is void of wisdom despiseth his readers: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.»

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Proverbs, chapter 11, verse 12 (adapted)

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