God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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two tasks which it is the function of religion to
perform, does not, of course, automatically follow.
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Having travelled so far along the road towards
acceptance of life after death as a reality, it seems
quite extraordinary to refuse to accept the religious
concept of this same phenomenon. This is on a
parallel with the insistance of an ignorant villager
that conversation between two people living
thousands of miles apart is impossible. Even when
we dial the number of one of his own relatives
living at a far distant place, hand him the receiver
and let him have that conversation which he had
found so incredible, he responds with, “Oh, that
was not necessarily my relative speaking. That
could have been some kind of machine.” Where
belief is concerned, we can lead a horse to the water,
but we cannot make him drink.
NOTES
1.
Man the Unknown
, p. 173.
2. George Gamow,
Biography of the Earth
, p. 82.
3. T.R. Miles,
Religion and the Scientific Outlook
, p.
206.
