Wilson will be remembered by some as the author of a bitter biography of C. S. Lewis and a dismissive book on Jesus.
Now he is a fervently practicing Christian, ready to call out the militant atheism of Western Europe for the irrationality that it dresses up in the label "rationalist."
Stories like Wilson's are SWNID's favorites.
We quote a tasty bit:
Materialist atheism says we are just a collection of chemicals. It has no answer whatsoever to the question of how we should be capable of love or heroism or poetry if we are simply animated pieces of meat.
The Resurrection, which proclaims that matter and spirit are mysteriously conjoined, is the ultimate key to who we are. It confronts us with an extraordinarily haunting story.
J. S. Bach believed the story, and set it to music. Most of the greatest writers and thinkers of the past 1,500 years have believed it.
But an even stronger argument is the way that Christian faith transforms individual lives - the lives of the men and women with whom you mingle on a daily basis, the man, woman or child next to you in church tomorrow morning.
6 comments:
Why is it that just because all the answers regarding life are not known that people will revert back to an all powerful diety instead of waiting for science to explore the unknown. Science as we know it has only been around a few hundred years. The scientific method will stay as long as there are humans to practice it. In a few thousand more years virtually all that is not known will be known. And if not in a few thousand then a few 100,000. Scientific investigation is her to stay and the answers will be found. We are all in such a rush that it has to happen in our lifetime or science can't deliver. A few hundred years from now if we still survive as a technological civilization religion will look just like Greek or Roman mythology looks to us today. Superstitions nonsense. A.N. Wilson must be in need of psychological comforting from someone that is an imaginary friend to change from being an Athiest to become a Xtian.
Thanks for that faith statement, Anon, expressing a confidence in the omnipotence of science and its future prospects that is more or less indistinguishable from belief in an all-powerful deity who will return to earth in the future. Go bravely!
"The scientific method will stay as long as there are humans to practice it. In a few thousand more years virtually all that is not known will be known. And if not in a few thousand then a few 100,000."
Anonymous,
Human civilization will probably not survive the next ice age coming within ten thousand years regardless of global warming. We surely won't be able to practice science in a few hundred thousand years and probably won't be here at all. The earth, the universe and the scientific method will all come to an end at some point.
As an ex-atheist who in his former life often said, "If He is there, He doesn't give a sh*t." What assurance do we have that this new omniscient "god" you have postulated does give a sh*t? My apologies to the Christians for quoting myself and adapting the quote to the new religion being proposed.
A: The Incarnate Christ.
I should have been more clear MR. Swnid that the new religion I was referring to was not Christianity which has been around a couple thousand, but the reference was to science. Too bad the term Scientology has been taken or I could have used that to clarify my comment. Again, my apologies for not being clear.
What does not make sense to me is a scientist who sees the mystery and miracle of it all and does not exclaim, "He is here!"
This is not to infer that I don't believe in science. Reverent science is man living out his role of being the imago dei. Solving problems of our world (whether we make a buck or not) is the task of man.
So SWNID, if I ever have nothing to do, I will take you to lunch at Price Hill Chili.
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