Monday, April 27, 2009

A Return To Faith

In April 2009, New Statesman magazine published an issue on the state of religion - with a focus on England, of course. In the issue, A. N. Wilson, novelist, recounts how he moved from faith to atheism and back to faith. Wilson wrote,
When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. It is not that (as they believe) they have rumbled the tremendous fraud of religion – prophets do that in every generation. Rather, these unbelievers are simply missing out on something that is not difficult to grasp. Perhaps it is too obvious to understand; obvious, as lovers feel it was obvious that they should have come together, or obvious as the final resolution of a fugue.

How do you respond to that? If you are a person of faith, do you agree with Wilson's description of atheists as those with no ear for music? If you are a person with no faith, do you agree?

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