When people are genuinely mystified by people of faith, the best explanation I can give is one I encountered as a teenager when I read "Jesus Rediscovered" by Malcolm Muggeridge, a socialist and atheist who became a Christian, because this was my experience of it as well. I offer excerpts here: /1
I’m strictly atheist after 60 yrs of Catholicism. Sorry. I think there’s a lot of solid social wisdom in the New Testament. Caring for others was radical. But no, no deity. None. Just the connections btw & among us all. Human conceit requires we assume a special status apart from all other animals.
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