Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Apatheism

Here is an interesting article about Apatheism -
http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/apatheism_beyond_religion/index.html

I have always contended that reason contradicts the existence of God.

However, I have also noted that most people I knew of were pretty reasonable, pragmatic people that, for some reason, believed in God. Thus, I made every attempt to understand the reasoning behind their beliefs.

This was where I hit a stone wall. All of them were absolutely sure about their belief in God; yet, somehow, they found it difficult to expound upon their beliefs.

This frustrated me.

Don't get me wrong, I was not frustrated by their beliefs; rather, I was flummoxed by my own understanding, or lack thereof, of them.

I found "apatheism" interesting because it helped pigeonhole a lot of people around me (at least better than any other previous denomination that I knew of) and because it helped in bettering my understanding of their beliefs

Although I didn't agree with some of the author's claims, I found the article to be, on the whole, an interesting read.

P.S. There is also a good article about introversion in the same site - actually that's how I got to that blog.
http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/caring_for_your_introvert/index.html