God loves the apostate?
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:05 am
This applies to my NOM friends, regarding the church. Who genuinely cares more about truth than those who have sincerely examined their own worldview with enough courage to let go of it when they found it unsustainable? Wouldn't a real God value that kind of curiosity, adaptability, and self-honesty far above someone who chooses simply go along with the program that is handed to them, relying on emotion and convenience rather than exposing themselves to the the gut-punch-rug-pulling potential of critical examination?It is an insult to God to believe in God. For on the one hand it is to suppose that he has perpetrated acts of incalculable cruelty. On the other hand, it is to suppose that he has perversely given his human creatures an instrument--their intellect--which must inevitably lead them, if they are dispassionate and honest, to deny his existence. It is tempting to conclude that if he exists, it is the atheists and agnostics that he loves best, among those with any pretensions to education. For they are the ones who have taken him most seriously. -Galen Strawson, British philosopher