Going to do some reading and posting comments from books I have had the opportunity to read over the past few months.
Starting with The Devil's Delusion:Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions. By David Berlinski. He holds a PhD from Princeton, and has taught at unversitities in the United States and France. This work is all the more fascinating as it is written by a person who is not a believer in God.
I would commend it to anyone.
From pg. xiv:
"While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love, and meaning, what the religious traditions of mankind have said forms a coherent body of thought. The yearnings of the human soul are not in vain. There is a system of belief adequate to the complexity of experience. There is recompense for suffering. A principle beyond selfishness is at work in the cosmos. All will be well.
I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know if it is false."
The yearnings of the human soul .... reason one among many for me why Atheism fails to satisfy emotionally and intellectually.
Shalom
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