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Reason and the Christian

Try to reason with a Christian, and they will look at you as though you are from another planet. Their eyes say "Who does this person think I am? Could he think I am interested in truth? He is mad! - totally out of touch with reality!"

They will tell you, scornfully, "thinking doesn't fill your stomach." Perhaps so, but it does ensure you are a creature worthy of having a stomach.

Christians say that Truth can be known without having to resort to reason. They believe that God in his infinite compassion would not want us to experience the suffering of thought. They regard their reasoning mind as a curse of the Devil.

A respected Christian poet was once asked what it was he had faith in. He answered: "I think I have faith in reason." He only thinks he has faith in reason! This just about sums it up doesn't it? We people hardly deserve the brains we have been given.

 

 

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