Christianity Today magazine has an interesting article "When Atheists Believe"--The confounding attraction of the Christian worldview.
http:www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2009/october/33.58.html
Sir Antony Flew caught a lot of attention when he concluded that atheism is not logically sustainable. He said he had to go where the evidence led and that evolutionary theory had no reasonable explanation for the origin of life.
Recently, A.N.Wilson who spent years mocking Christianity has returned to the faith. He said the reason was that atheists are "missing out on some very basic experiences of life. He observed that people who say we are "simply anthropoid apes" cannot account for things as basic as language, love, and music."
Matthew Parris, well known British atheist, visited Christian aid workers in Malawi and what he saw was the transforming power of the gospel. He wrote, "It confounds my ideological beliefs, stubbornly refuses to fit my worldview, and has embarassed my growing belief that there is no God."The author of the articled added, "While Parris is unwilling to follow where his observations lead, he is obviously wrestling with how Christianity makes better sense of the world than other worldviews."
The author of the article said, "While we can't reason our way to God, I've long believed that Christianity is the most rational explanation of reality."
What think ye?
And the sponsoring organizations seem to be doing nothing at all to rein them in>>>>
Can you give me the names of any American Evangelical organizations who are sponsoring any such conduct and who have any authority to rein it in?
CS>>And the sponsoring organizations seem to be doing nothing at all to rein them in>>>>
B>> Can you give me the names of any American Evangelical organizations who are sponsoring any such conduct and who have any authority to rein it in?
The method of "postulating" what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.Bertrand Russell
Very weak article. I expect better from Christianity Today.~ Véronique
Really? And just what would that be? Would anything better impress you regardless?
Do we have any posters in the Religion Forum who will discuss civilly and respectfully the article in question? I don't have much time to be in the forum--mostly late at night after a busy day. I am not interested at all in mud slinging and denigrating anybody.
Let me try one more time. Sir Antony Flew, a well known defender of atheism, said that while he had not come to believe in the Biblical God, he had concluded that atheism is not logically sustainable. Please note that neither I nor the writer of the article in Christianity Today has said that Antony Flew became a Christian. Nobdody has said that. But he did say he had to go "Where the evidence led." He said, Evolutionary theory has no reasonable explanationfor the origin of life."
A.N. Wilson who spent years mocking Christianity came back to the faith and said that listening to Bach and reading the works of religious authors, he realized that their worldview or "perception of life was deeper, wiser, and more rounded than my own." He said that people who insist we are simply anthropoid apes cannot account for things as basic as language, love, and music.
Would anyone like to discuss these statements by Dr. Flew and Mr. Wilson--in a civil respectful discussion? Why do you agree or disagree with what they said?If so, then I would like to see us have an intelligent, adult discussion that perhaps could lead us into the arguments for atheism and the arguments for theism. That might include discussion about the existence of evil, The Random Universe or the Orderly universe, Purpose or Purposelessness of life, etc.
I think this could be a very good thread if we can disagree agreeably and give our best reasons and arguments for our positions. If we can't have a civil discussion here, then I will leave and try to have the discussion in another forum. But I would like to have the discussion here.
