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Does God exist or is it just a delusion?

This question stems from Richard Dawkins’ bestselling book The God Delusion and Allstair McGrath’s rebuttal in The Dawkin’s Delusion: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine. This question is an important one due to the magnitude of The God Delusion’s popularity in our culture. I admit that I have not had time to read either book, I plan on it sometime soon, but I did find sometime to listen to a public debate Dawkins and McGrath had at Oxford.

You can listen to the debate here:

• Delusion Debate Part One
• Delusion Debate Part Two

After my class in Music and Arts in Worship, I have been continually coming back to the question:

What is beauty? Is it simply in the eye of the beholder? Is it just culturally determined? Can sin, evil, or its results be beautiful? What then is beauty?

This is one of those questions that needs to percolate for a while…slow roast if you will.

The following question stems from the quote I came across during some recent reading I’ve done on Martin Luther King Jr. The quote is from a sermon he gave entitled “Guidelines for a Constructive Church” in which he says “The acceptable year of the Lord is that year when men will keep their theology abreast with their technology.” With this quote in mind, here is the question:

Should there be a relationship between theology and technology? How should this relationship function?

I think we typically see technology as distinct and disconnected from theology. But I would argue that although we may have the capability to do something, it does not necessarily mean we should.

Today’s question stems from a quote by the German theologian Paul Tillich:

“Doubt isn’t the opposite of faith. It is an element of faith.“

There are those who seem to think that one must be completely certain about everything in order to believe or act; however, I would ask…

If there is no doubt, can there be faith?