Methinks there are a lot of people who ‘protest too much’.
I’ve been accused of having a ‘dim view’ of humanity because I have noted that many people struggle with pride, obedience, etc. Apparently quite a lot of people think that they are absolutely ‘swell fellas and gals’ but just cannot believe in ‘any of the gods around’ or accept evidence unless it is ‘ironclad’, etc.
I agree with the OP. It is sad that people choose --and it is a choice, because I haven’t seen anybody here YET state, “What? You speak of a being called God? I have never heard of this being” --to not believe. Perhaps some of that comes from the erroneous idea that in order to believe something is true, one must have scientific ‘proof’. Perhaps over the last few decades of materialism and modernism, and the debunking of anything that smacks of anything other than ‘nature’, people have lost the idea of faith --a belief (there’s that word) in things hoped for. IOW, a choice --a gift given to those who truly do look, not those whose minds are already closed.
I do sympathize with many of you younger ones who were educated in a system whereby you were told to ‘question everything’ with the end result being that many of you just don’t know when to STOP. For you, there is never a final answer of: With all the evidence of Scripture and the Church, blessed are we who do not see with our eyes and hear with our ears Christ on Earth around AD 30 or so. . .yet on the testimony of His disciples and through the Holy Spirit working in the Church He instituted on St. Peter. . .we believe.
