i bleed red too.

is christianity really that far-fetched, that distant from logic and reason that it is completely unbelieveable? I remember reading TIME magazine a year or two ago. It was a feature on the 100 most influential people over the past 300 years or something. Charles darwin was inevitably one of them. The heading was this:
‘Charles darwin: The man that killed God’.
And this is mostly true from a social point of view. But i do wonder whether the world, or rather the west, was simply just waiting for a replacement for God. As soon as Charles Darwin proposed this all, the world accepted it with open arms. The fact that the world was created by accident, infact everything is an accident. Everything that happens is just one big accident. There is no purpose or meaning underlying anything, its all just carbon and chemicals… matter on matter on matter on matter on matter. Im not go into some beasty dissitation on why i believe evolution is a whole lot of garbage. What i do want to say is this.
What if we are naturally spiritual beings? What if God did create us and everything else, and wants to know us the way long time lovers know one another? What if God was such a genius that he gave us free choice, gave us a relational longing, gave us free will? What if all the extreme strong feelings that we always feel, like love, loneliness, and wanting to be accepted and appreciated is because God put them there?
i say this because christianity, or watever you want to call it, makes so much sense to me.

Having said that, there are other times that i doubt it. Yep thats right, it doesn’t always make complete sense to me. That doesnt go to say that i suddenly believe in evolution every now and then. You see, some people think that we all follow our faith blindly. That we say yes pastor, three bags full pastor, done deal pastor, and go on with life like everything is happy clappy. We are real people too uno. I grapple with issues of my faith all the time, wondering whether this beast was just forced upon me or whether its actually real. As time has gone on though, i know and understand more and more of why i believe what i believe and how true my faith really is to me.

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