Posted on 05/29/2009 10:00:26 AM PDT by inflorida
Have you ever heard the one about the Christian who started to study calculus and ended up losing his faith? Of course you have. Such "conversion" to atheism is supposed to be the story of all modern, thinking people. But imagine it happening the other way around. Moreover, imagine the convert being a well-informed, public intellectual who had long made it his business to argue that faith is irrational?
Just such a conversion has happened to A.N. Wilson, the 58-year-old British biographer, novelist and man of letters. He was once an observant Anglican and, later, a Roman Catholic, but in the 1980s he lost his faith and began skewering the supposed delusions of the faithful. His antifaith stance was expressed in books such as "God's Funeral" (1999) and "Jesus: A Life" (1992). A few weeks ago, however, Mr. Wilson confessed that Christ had risen indeed. He attributed this to "the confidence I have gained with age." He now says he believes that atheists are like "people who have no ear for music or who have never been in love."
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Sounds like Mr. Wilson is finally comprehending the mortality of his physical being, and is hedging his bets on the destiny for his soul.
faith is a hard thing to have.
If God can convert Paul on the road to Damascus, he can convert anyone.
Is he still selling his anti-faith books?
Is he planning on writing a new one?
yeah it sounds like it, don't it.
No, I haven't.
In fact -- there is no possible connection between studying calculus and questions of faith.
What a loopy proposition!
Faith is like a muscle. It can be damaged through abuse and will waste away through neglect.
I prayed to God when I studied Calculus.
Damn, I've always blamed algebra..
Atheists who “do the right things” are idiots by their own definition. If there is not God, then there is no right or wrong and doing unselfish things for a world that will eventually forget you ever existed is stupid.
“hedging his bets”.
Pascal’s wager.
I think C.S. Lewis first set out to “prove” there was no God. He came up with a different answer than he thought.
A lawyer by the name of Josh McDowell (?) set out to prove, using legal/courtroom style justice that the Resurrection was false. He too came up with a different answer and wrote a very detailed and compelling book “Evidence Demands a Verdict”, and became a prolific Christian writer.
I imagine the list goes on and on.
Faith is a hormone storm. It depends on emotion to survive.
Nice metaphors though.
LOL! I thought the same thing!
as far as faith???
I dunno....10 years of parochial school and 40+years later and I am still looking....its gotta be here somewhere.
Actually, no I hadn't. And Anyone whose faith is so fragile that he would lose it over such a small issue as mathematics didn't have faith to begin with. Like those dolts who were sure that the Davinci Code or Angels and Demons would result in Christians walking away from church, they obviously have no real idea what they were talking about.
Seems like he knows at age 58 years old that his time is getting shorter. What is sickening is these people in their younger age spew their atheist nonsense. They often belittle people of faith. I doubt he will now write a book about faith.
To me math and science is how we explain God’s creativity, in terms we can understand.
faith is a hard thing to have.
It’s even harder to keep
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