Thought of the Day 04.02.09

Atheist: Christianity is just wish fulfillment. You look around this world and discover that people let you down and betray you, so you invent a God who never does. You see sickness, pain, and death, so you invent a heaven with none of these things. You see evil go unpunished and good get no reward, so you invent a supreme Judge who remedies this. In short, your religion is nothing but a fantasy version of a reality that is too difficult to accept as the sum total of human existence.

Christian: Well, psychologically, this is plausible. But have you considered the possibility that God is the best advertiser ever, partially creating and partially allowing a world characterized by “almost but not quite” at its best and horror and pain at its worst so that we will both appreciate and yearn for exactly who He is as a result of having experienced the misery of a world just partially separated from Him?