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To: Matchett-PI

We are ALL agnostic. Everyone who has ever lived. ;^)


116 posted on 12/30/2011 11:56:46 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: A_perfect_lady
"We are ALL agnostic. Everyone who has ever lived. ;^"

"...true knowledge of any kind--let alone knowledge that is deep and broad--leads directly to the threshold of the Divine, something all wise men realize because men were made to realize it.

"However, notice that I said “threshold,” for our natural reason can only lead to an honest confession of agnosticism unless one makes the conscious decision to take the next step over the threshold. If that weren’t the case, we would not be free to discover God--rather, we would be “theology machines,” which we are not, precisely.

"Many in the west have been so poisoned by secularism that it is difficult for them to any longer perceive God. For that is a key point. The existence of God may be easily proved, but only to a generous intellect that is inclined to accept the evidence. To the intellect that so not so inclined, no evidence will ever suffice. But make no mistake--it is absurd for a wholly contingent being (which is how an atheist must regard himself) to make any absolute metaphysical claims about anything whatsoever.

The intellect corrupted by secularism will nevertheless come up with its own substitute wisdom

120 posted on 12/30/2011 12:12:41 PM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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