Christmas 2011
December 2011
There is great satisfaction in getting something right. Whether it be football or horse racing or the next election etc. If I go around telling people who I think will win, it is great to be able to say ‘I told you so.’
Christopher Hitchin who recently died was a professed atheist. In fact he put a lot of work and effort into telling us that there was no such thing as a god. When you died you died, in every sense of the word, and that was that.
Christopher Hitchin was an extremely intelligent man. He had great abilities. He was a an intellectual. I respected him greatly because I believe him to have been a sincere man.
It is just a pity that, if he was right there was nobody there to tell ‘I told you so.’
But if he was wrong then he must be feeling terribly embarrassed at the moment.
When you consider the immensity of the known universe, not to speak of the unknown universe or as some physicists today say, universes.
When you consider the complexity of each single atom and the difficulty of trying to unravel particle physics.
Is it not surprising that many human beings find it ludicrous to point to a newborn baby and declare that this is the creator of everything.
It is ludicrous, it is crazy, until you consider the stupid, irrational, absurd, amazing, fantastic, untypical things we human beings do when moved by love or compassion.
What if the Creator of everything (and the source of all love and compassion) could also act crazy when moved by love and compassion.
I now tell you a little story which might be to the point.