Daily Meditation: Friday, June 22, 2001

Atheists think that they show objectivity, logic and …

06/22/2001

Atheists think that they show objectivity, logic and reasoning: they think that they at least judge according to what they see, hear, touch, measure, etc., unlike believers who are so obsessed by their faith that they are incapable, according to them, of being lucid. Well, no, however intelligent a man may be, if he does not accept the existence of God, the reality of the soul, the immortality of the spirit, he will always lack an essential element to complete his observations and judgments. The absence of this element limits him, for he pays too much attention to form, to the surface of life.
An atheist is like someone who, looking at a human being, considers only his anatomy. As long as it is only a question of identifying the limbs and organs, and describing their aspects, that is all right, anatomy can suffice. But to pay too much attention to anatomy means to take an interest in a body without taking into account the life that animates it. Only the belief in the life of the soul and spirit and in the divine world, where they have their origins, can give a man the true dimension of beings and things and the consciousness of the currents that circulate within them.