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Bluesky
10-12-2009, 04:34 PM
A.N. Wilson used to write books against the biblical accounts of Christ.

He has now returned to the Christian faith. It is interesting reading what factors compelled him to accept the resurrection of Christ after all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1169145/Religion-hatred-Why-longer-cowed-secular-zealots.html

Here is another article by him.
http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2009/04/conversion-experience-atheism

I concur with what he says:

Gilbert Ryle, with donnish absurdity, called God "a category mistake". Yet the real category mistake made by atheists is not about God, but about human beings. Turn to the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Read the first chapter of Genesis without prejudice and you will be convinced at once . . . 'The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life'." And then Coleridge adds: "'And man became a living soul.' Materialism will never explain those last words."
ApocalypsePlease
10-13-2009, 01:58 AM
Gilbert Ryle, with donnish absurdity, called God "a category mistake". Yet the real category mistake made by atheists is not about God, but about human beings. Turn to the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Read the first chapter of Genesis without prejudice and you will be convinced at once . . . 'The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life'." And then Coleridge adds: "'And man became a living soul.' Materialism will never explain those last words."

Materialism can have a few possible explanations for those last three words. Its lack of magic and mysteriousness, however, might turn people off because it makes them feel less special than say ... a tree or piece of meat :).
Soundbear
10-13-2009, 09:50 PM
Materialism can have a few possible explanations for those last three words. Its lack of magic and mysteriousness, however, might turn people off because it makes them feel less special than say ... a tree or piece of meat :).

God makes everything out of nothing, and you make a comparison like that??

We are all more important than that.