The last two sessions of the Alpha 10 house group were
interesting. At the first one, we discussed Richard Dawkin’s book ‘The God
Delusion’. Mike Ashwood led it and I thought he did a good job, as it is difficult
to get a discussion going about a book if most people have not actually read
it. Dawkin’s book deals with facts, what
you can see in front of you, and he has little time for those who use faith to
explain something that cannot be seen.
The second session was a discussion on a
book by Reza Aslan called ‘Zealot, The Life And Times Of Jesus Of Nazareth’.
Using mainly verses from the Bible, he propounds a theory that Jesus was the
leader of an independence movement who was crucified (but not resurrected).
Full of information about Jewish history, the book was interesting for just
that. However, if you followed his conclusions through, it hardly makes it
worth getting up earlier on a Sunday morning. The books were similar in that
they dealt with fact only. Hard to argue with unless you had your own Wikipedia
of information.
How do you explain faith?
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