.. weakness, or simply a moment of wanting to have his cake and eat it, too, (enjoy the "culture" without supporting the work/beliefs that prompted its creation) ... and doing so with an attitude of entitlement as one of the cultural royalty, above the laws of consistency.
Harsh, but surely true. It is a culture that could never have been built without belief that what it represented was actually true. Why bother building cathedrals if you don’t believe in God? But it can’t be sustained without that belief, either, as the number of churches being turned into apartments and restaurants shows. The wholesale adoption of church schools by the state and their conversion to centres of doctrinaire secularism is nothing short of grave-robbery.
He may still be a fair way from accepting the truth of the gospel, but he's on the right trajectory. Besides, he could have an epiphany or radical conversion experience that even he did not anticipate.
.. weakness, or simply a moment of wanting to have his cake and eat it, too, (enjoy the "culture" without supporting the work/beliefs that prompted its creation) ... and doing so with an attitude of entitlement as one of the cultural royalty, above the laws of consistency.
Harsh, but surely true. It is a culture that could never have been built without belief that what it represented was actually true. Why bother building cathedrals if you don’t believe in God? But it can’t be sustained without that belief, either, as the number of churches being turned into apartments and restaurants shows. The wholesale adoption of church schools by the state and their conversion to centres of doctrinaire secularism is nothing short of grave-robbery.
He may still be a fair way from accepting the truth of the gospel, but he's on the right trajectory. Besides, he could have an epiphany or radical conversion experience that even he did not anticipate.
This is true. We cannot anticipate how God might work.
Well said and very convincing. We need to have you debate Dawkins publicly!
Perish the thought! I don’t think he’s about to change his mind, alas.