Archbisop Doubts Presence Of God

[jomifl]

/'Paris attacks made me doubt God's presence' - archbishop



The Archbishop of Canterbury has said the terror attacks in Paris made him "doubt" the presence of God.

The Most Reverend Justin Welby told Aled Jones during an interview for the BBC's Songs Of Praise that the killings had put a "chink in his armour".

The Paris gun and suicide bomb attacks on 13 November, carried out by so-called Islamic State, left 130 people dead. /

But the previous countless millions of victims of religious persecution didn't ..how strange.

[Khandro]

jomifl; //Atheism is not an idealogical vacuum since it doesn't preclude the values of fairness, equality and honesty// I agree with you on that, and I have never said otherwise.
However "comprehension" isn't the be-all and end-all of appreciation. I believe there exists a deeper spiritual feeling to sacred music and art among the religious audience than there is to an atheist one.

[jomifl]

/ I believe there exists a deeper spiritual feeling to sacred music and art among the religious audience than there is to an atheist one. /

Whilst I can see that religious art would mean more to the appropriate believer than to an atheist untutored in the subtleties of nail placement in crucifiction and the art of disembowelling and immolation chez satan I cannot see that a thorough perusal of the bible would help with the appreciation of any form of music...there isn't any in it is there?

[Khandro]

Perhaps this will change your mind, - might even convert you ! :0)

[naomi24]

Khandro, you posted that to demonstrate what?

[jomifl]

Thanks Khandro, I thought that it captured the evolution of self replicating molecules beautifully though it was a little weak on the development of call membranes. It is possible that I missed that bit when I made a cup of tea.

[DTCwordfan]

I wonder if God has doubted the presence of the Archbishop Oilwell?

[modeller]

God, Satan, Angels ,Demons, Gremlins etc are all created in Man's mind to try to understand , for better or worse , our world . Does it matter ?
Maybe ! But it will never change because it gives comfort to many , they don't have to face reality.

[Khandro]

modeller; Leave out the final thrust; "they don't have to face reality." and IMO, that is one of the brightest posts you have ever made!

[Old_Geezer]

Atheism may not preclude other values, but it doesn't push them either. It's a single viewpoint on the existence of a deity. Until we read and accept the Gospel according to St. Dawkins it's going to be pretty much in a vacuum.

[jourdain2]

Where to come in? I'm a simple soul. Christianity admits and allows the existence of doubt. Some other religions don't. I remember the then Bishop of Durham expressing doubts that God existed (York cathedral was coincidentally struck by lightning shortly afterwards!). Nothing new in what was said. Bad things happened in the past, by both states and religions. It doesn't mean that we have to be bound by the actions of long-dead people, jomifl, nor do we have to account for them - that is impossible. We are only responsible for ourselves and our actions today.

[wired]

So, Wobbly Welby has his doubts, he's human, perhaps telling the world wasn't his best idea.

[modeller]

jourdain 2 " Christianity admits and allows the existence of doubt. "

Sorry to say so jourdain2 but ' No it doesn't ! . The Crusades , The Inquisition , Anti Semitism , Northern Ireland, etc. Christians have been killing each other and others in the name of God and Jesus for the past 2000 years.