I usually hate talking about my faith to people, because when i explain it, i don't always realize how the idea of faith might not make sense to others. I mean, people always ask for the evidence! What proves that Christianity is the right faith?! personally, even though i'd love to, i haven't come across any hard evidence proving Christianity. As much as this makes Christianity sound fake and completely made up, there is a certain important element they miss in the article. It's called Faith.
Faith is believing in what you cannot see. Faith is the final test, and is what makes you a christian. It would be far to easy if God gave us evidence! then everyone would have to believe, and no one would be believing for the right reasons (the ones God wants us to believe for). Hope that makes sense :).
Intelligent People Don’t Believe in God
“My friends and I were celebrating at an Italian res'taLu'anl aero ss the street
from the University of Missouri. I was set to graduate in a few days, and I
had just accepted aj ob offer: a three-rnonth internship at the Chicago Tribtuze,
with the promise that if I performed weil, I’d get a permanent job as a
reporter. At one point during the somewhere between the bread sticks
and the Neapolítm ice cream, my best friend, Ersin, made an offhand remark
about how my internship was a great gift from God.
His comment startled me. During the four years I’d known Ersin, I don’t
think we’d ever talked about religion.
‘Wait a minute, let me get this straight,” I said. ‘Are you telling me that
someone as intelligent as you valedictoiiall, science Whiz, and all that-tliat
you actually believe that God exists? I always figured you were beyond tha-1t!’
It was clear that Ersin was equally surprised. ‘What are you trying to tell
he said. ‘Are you saying there isn ’I a God? Are you telling me that
someone as intelligent as you doesn ’t believe in God? You’ve got to be
kiddingl’
We Were both genuinely astonished. I couldn’t believe that a Sharp person
like Ersin had actually bought into a fairy tale like the existence of an all-
powerful, allknoWing Creator ofthe universe. Hadn’t he learned anything at
college?
if you cold my attitude toward God, that would be it:
Intelligent people didn_`t heli eve in him. All it took was a quick look at the
evidence to know that Chrisatianìty was nothing but superstition and wishful
thinking.
But to be honest, that’s all I had ever really given the evidence: a quick
look. And I was happy to keep it that Way for years-until one day, my life
took a strange turn, pushing me into an all-out investigation into the facts
surrounding the case for Christianity.”
