Via Grace and Orange Clogs, I found this YouTube video of Dr. Tim Keller speaking at Google HQ about his new book, The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism. The entire hour is worth watching for those interested, but there were a couple points in which I took particular interest. Keller argued that there is a sort of three rung ladder which people often climb as they move towards belief in God. The three rungs he described are as follows:
- Disbelief is as much a leap of faith as is belief
- Disbelief actually takes more faith than does belief
- Belief takes more than just reason; it requires a personal commitment
In justifying the first rung, Keller made a great point about many of the common objections to the existence of God. Namely, that they often make assumptions about the nature of God before even being willing to admit God might exist. A related point, which he also discussed, was best worded by Bright Eyes a few years ago: “If you swear that there’s no truth, who cares? How come you say it like you’re right?”
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When my wife was at NYU she used to go to keller’s church. She always talked about how great he was, so when I saw this post I waited for her to walk into the room and then turned it on. We both sat down and listened to the whole video. It was unbelievable. I could really listen to it over and over again.
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