Comments on: XFiles Friday: The “demanding” sayings of Jesus http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/11/14/xfiles-friday-the-demanding-sayings-of-jesus/ The theology of Reality Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:49:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: honestpoet http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/2008/11/14/xfiles-friday-the-demanding-sayings-of-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-5125 honestpoet Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:41:04 +0000 http://blog.evangelicalrealism.com/?p=524#comment-5125 The truth is that it's easier to be a theist in a largely theistic society than it is to buck the trend and face reality (and the opprobrium of our fellows). It's also emotionally more comfortable to imagine that Justice will be dispensed by an all-powerful deity rather than to realize that if justice is going to exist we're going to have to create a just society, which will actually entail hard work. And to believe that our loved ones will be waiting for us with open arms a the end of a tunnel when we die. It doesn't take faith to be an atheist, but it does take courage, and I'm guessing that's something Geisler and Turek lack. The truth is that it’s easier to be a theist in a largely theistic society than it is to buck the trend and face reality (and the opprobrium of our fellows). It’s also emotionally more comfortable to imagine that Justice will be dispensed by an all-powerful deity rather than to realize that if justice is going to exist we’re going to have to create a just society, which will actually entail hard work. And to believe that our loved ones will be waiting for us with open arms a the end of a tunnel when we die.

It doesn’t take faith to be an atheist, but it does take courage, and I’m guessing that’s something Geisler and Turek lack.

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