Be Careful What You Ask For

Did you ever hear this line? “Be careful what you ask for.” There is truth and wisdom in it. A philosopher says this, “The very things we yearn for most and regard as our highest good (wealth, fame, power, luxury, leisure, and even scientific insight) can be our undoing.” [William Dembski] This can be hard to admit…but often…we don’t actually know what would be best for us. But, of course, God does.

He's Glad To See The New Atheist Books?

Christian philosopher and mathematician, William Dembski writes something that surprised me, at first, he says that he was “gratified to see the recent rash of books by the ‘neo-atheists’.”

Hey, wait a minute, a “Christian” was “gratified” to see a whole new batch of books denouncing God by atheist writers like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris?  Why would he be glad about that? It seems like a lot of Christians are upset about these books.

Here’s Dembski’s explanation: “These books would be unnecessary if Christianity, and theism generally, were not again a live issue.”  In other words, Christianity is not dead—God is not irrelevant, even within the intellectual community—belief in God is a valid, potent, and important issue in our world. The fact that these atheist writers are spending their time and energy churning out books AGAINST God, in a sense, helps to further verify the vitality of God!

Ah, that’s an interesting way of looking at it, huh?