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C S Lewis on atheism

“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.”

C. S. Lewis
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GeistInTheMachine · 31-35, M
What turned me away from atheism was spirtiual experience after experience, as though taylor made for me. As though God went and declared himself to me with a megaphone, and the evidence was all there in a way that I could no longer deny, one thing on top of another.

I was already academically curious and in a place where I had humbled myself enough to realize that even though (in my mind) it made no logical sense for God go exist, I still prayed and asked, therefore I recieved.

I was listening to the audiobook Quantum Mechanics and God. Was and am fascinated by Quantum Mechanics.

Eventually I had experienced and studied enough to feel and think that perhaps Scientific Materialism does not hold arbitor status on all things real and knowable to man.

Eventually it was like a levy broke, and for the second time in my life my worldview changed rapidly.

The last time being when I was a kid and figured out Jehovah's Witnesses were a damaging cult.

TL;DR - Always challenge your worldview and be humble and don't underestimate man's capacity to believe he knows much more than he actually does.

There is much, much we do not understand. People need to be sober about this materialist or otherwise.

We really are as overgrown children.