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Re: Good point.
Posted by Andy Younan (Guest) jonah2164@yahoo.com - Friday, December 19 2003, 20:47:01 (EST)
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Farid,

I remember that, during one of the all-too-few times we had coffee at that little hut in Campbell, I was trying to find some common ground between us. I used what I thought to be an obvious example of "we can be certain about some things." I held up a napkin and said, "if I drop this, you know it will hit the ground." You answered, if I remember rightly, something like "No I don't. A million intermediate things could happen that I don't know about."

You were right, of course. A million things COULD happen - someone could walk by at the right second and catch the napkin before it hit the ground; it could land on my foot, or the wind could blow it onto the table.

Yet when it comes to Christianity, there is no intermediate thing that you might be missing - there is nothing in between "God loves me" and "I want to kill" that could define the meaning of the whole thing. There were three feet between the napkin and the ground, but that three feet contained a million possibilities of fault in my prediction. But between Christian faith and action, there is the enormous unknown of the human psyche. You have constructed a chain of thoughts where, for example, believing in Christ's divinity leads NECESSARILY to violent action - never mind that the chain you've constructed sounds like the rambling of a madman to any Christian. You've got everyone SO figured out that there is NO WAY that Christian faith could lead logically to ANYTHING but what you say - and all the rest of the Christians in the world besides the three dozen in your history books are not living their faith fully - they are inconsistent. They HAVE to be, because there's no way it could possibly be otherwise. And, of course, those who SAY they're doing good BECAUSE of their faith are either lying or bad people for acting with an eye to heaven - as if wishing for your own happiness and acting with love toward others to that end were bad things.

Is it possible, Farid, that there is something that you don't see - something hidden in the unknown corners of the human mind but proclaimed by every Christian worth the name - that would make the Saints the REAL Christians, and the REST the inconsistent ones? Or have you understood the human mind better than you've understood the three feet of air between that napkin and the concrete?

That napkin, as I recall, DID hit the ground - it was my intention that it should, after all. It would have been fairly embarassing if someone DID walk by and grab it in mid-air - just like it's shameful to all Christians when someone uses Christianity for something it was never intended for.

Your tv pal,

Andy



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