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The Paradox of Faith
Some quick brain candy. Taken from an anonymous blog:
My way of looking at things is that people don’t know anything. They think they do, they may believe they do but they can’t KNOW. Even if god talks to you, you don’t know it’s god till you die, it could be anything untill then. anyway… say there is a god, i’m asking him to prove himself to me. I’m not asking for a miracle or money or fame or anything, i’m just asking him to move this guitar pick on my desk. He doesn’t even have to move it far, just move it a bit. Not change it into gold, or make me a brilliant guitar player, just nudge it a little. Why doesn’t he do it? If he did that, i would ‘know’ there is a god, or at least something answering when i ask for a god to move my guitar pick.
I believe this particular train of thought is universal; something all serious minded people have considered at one time or another.
Why doesn’t God just move the pick? Why doesn’t God just give us a phone call? Why doesn’t God just agree to an interview on Larry King?
Perhaps the Christians are right. If God wants us to have faith, any evidence of God would deter from this goal. In other words, if we had proof of God, faith in God would become a moot point. After all, we don’t have faith in electrons and quarks- we have observations, tests, and hard data which serve as evidence, and thus abolish the need for faith. Maybe faith has a value to God that we can’t understand.
Perhaps the atheists are right. The simplest answer is that God can’t move the pick, because there is no God.
Perhaps Kurt Vonnegut is right. Perhaps God is utterly indifferent, and couldn’t care less about your pick.
Perhaps the Buddhists are right. Perhaps God exists, but lacks any consciousness or motive. Perhaps God (like the pick) simply is.
Perhaps the Catholics are right. Perhaps God has a specific plan, and part of this plan includes your pick being at that exact spot at that exact moment.
Perhaps everyone is wrong, and the answer lies somewhere else entirely.
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