Saturday, November 15, 2008
I'm at a loss...
Sorry guys, about not being on top of things when it comes to blogging. I've just been swamped with a lot of things right now, as are a lot of you during this time of year. A lot of things have been on my mind, especially our recent discussions we have been having about God and proof of His existence. I don't really know why, but these discussions have been bugging me a lot. I find myself constantly thinking about the topic and trying to find a solution. The more I try thinking about a solution, the more frustrated I make myself. It really bothers me that I am not able to defend myself against, let's say, someone who's an atheist. Maybe my faith is not as strong as I had thought it to be, but for some reason I feel like everything I've learned since birth is uncoiling at the core. I've tried talking with some of my close friends and family about what we've been discussing in class and yet I still come out feeling unsatisfied. Is there really no way to explain why I believe that God is the ultimate Creator? Is my faith really irrational? I hate feeling like something I believe so strongly in as irrational. I never thought of myself as a cynic, but listening to what is being said in class is causing me to reevaluate everything I believe. I don't know if any
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I get the feeling that you're not alone in the class who has these feelings. Unfortunately, this is the turn that philosophy can make one commit to; but it does not have to. Remember that philosophy is one thing and faith is something else. Now does that mean that faith is irrational? I asked something in the neighborhood of this question in class last time and I got a positive reply. But this too does not have to be necessarily so. One's faith can be based on what is rational; it is important, however, to come to terms with the idea that the notion of what is rational need not be constrained to physical object language. That is, 'if we can't perceive it, then it doesn't exist' isn't the only way to understand what existence means. For example one can ask why must the notion of existence be constrained or limited to such an understanding. Why does the atheist have the final say on what the notion of 'existence' amounts to? Is it possible that just like the believer cannot 'prove' God's existence so too can the atheist not prove that existence is constrained to his way of understanding alone? In other words, isn't it possible that there is something that the atheist cannot see for whatever reason and, therefore, cannot take into account?
My advice: don't fret. There is an answer to your questions regarding your beliefs and it's one from a rational point of view. Your faith need not be challenged. Of course, it will always depend on whether or not you wish to accept it the answer. But it is rational, and not a rationality in the way that some of the people who we will be reading this week see it.
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