Sublime

here at the far end of modernity, the concept of God is often just as obscure to those who want to believe as to those who want not to. Ours is in many ways a particularly unsubtle age.

‘A myth can only “work” when it is thought to be truth, and man cannot for long knowingly and intentionally “kid” himself,’82 said Watts, an Episcopal priest who knew this problem well. One must, somehow, muster enough faith in the Holy Trinity for it to be of any help in achieving the surrender of the ego. This isn’t trivial in today’s cynical and

The question is not: Must we believe in God in order to live moral lives?

“God,” to Thomas, is merely a label we place at the spot where we wonder, “Why is there something rather than nothing? What does it all mean? Why anything rather than nothing?” Aquinas knew he could not provide a fully satisfying answer. “God” is the label Christians use for the human question of “meaning.” As McCabe concludes, “We do not and

Truth is perfect. It can gain nothing by being perceived. It is therefore disinterested. It has no motive for deception. It cannot present itself falsely because it does not present itself at all. Self-presentation is for human beings. Human beings are not completely visible; we come with packaging. The package is always shaped by human

He pointed out that there are plenty of beliefs that we deem rationally acceptable even though we have little evidence for them.

And I think it is ungracious and unnecessary to deny that they exist. To claim that thinkers who claim to be atheists are actually believers in another kind of absolute is childish and insulting.

The Church found a way of living with the unexplained delay, because