I am fascinated to see how western intellectuals with the least interest in experiencing spiritual truths are ever at each other's throats either to prove that God exists or to disprove it. Religion to them seems to be an intellectual exercise and no more.
At university campuses philosophy flows, often in dubious ways, to prove impossible propositions as the 'Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary' or 'The Resurrection of Christ'. Well, these are matters of faith and one may either accept them or reject them, depending on one's irrational or rational stance in life, but these certainly cannot be proved through rational debate unless, of course, the prior assumption is that a debate need not be rational as such and can be allowed to go haywire in reasonable terms.
To fit in the irrational doctrines of Christianity within the fold of modern thought clearly signifies how scientific, after all, modern thought is in so far as the bulk of human population goes. Otherwise, who would have cared to listen to such gibberish as apologists for Christianity dish out as 'intellectual' delicacies for the audience in debates in the western world that somehow cannot quite give up the terrible admixture of superstition and religion couched up in fallacious philosophical language?
Written by Sugata Bose
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