Post on 17-Jul-2015
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I would certainly begin to believe in God if I were to witness an unambiguous manifestation of the divine, and the vast majority of atheists probably would as well . . . What further harm could it possibly do for him to appear and attempt to convince them otherwise?
‘Ebon Musings’
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I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well-informed people I know are religious believers....
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...It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and, naturally, hope that I’m right in my belief. It’s that I hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don’t want a universe like that.
Thomas Nagel
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As to why God doesn’t make it demonstratively clear: are we sure that He is even interested in the kind of Theism which [would] be a compelled logical assent to a conclusive argument?
C.S. Lewis letter to Sheldon Vanauken, 23 Dec. 1950
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He has willed to make himself quite recognisable by those; and thus, willing to appear openly to those who seek Him with all their heart, and to be hidden from those who flee from Him with all their heart . . .
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There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
Pascal Pensées (tr. W.F. Trotter), 430
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Sunlight, though it has no favourites cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as a clean one.
C.S. Lewis