"FROM THE PULPITS OF THE FIDEISTS"

i contest the various proposed proofs
of the existence of God as irrelevant
since i hold that belief in God is not contingent
on any human ability of reason

even if the proofs were valid, the principles
with which they propose to describe or demonstrate "God"
are not congruent with the deity – actual God –
worshiped by actual faiths both historical and living :

i implore you : seek out ( and i quote Pascal : )
"the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—
not the god of the philosophers!"

philosophers are oft guilty of hubris, but so is the scientist flock :
they are masters of their worlds and in their guilds,
masters of their disciplines, in their laboratories,
thinking anything become their subject !

but where is the mathematician with correct measurements of divinity ?

and show me a philosopher eager to seek
more so than he is
to know

filthy hubris from the ecclesial elites !

anyway –
God's existence cannot be certainly known,
and the decision to accept faith
is neither founded on, nor feeds off of,
any means of rational justification

the belief in a God made flesh
or the belief in a woman fruitful immaculate
is the acceptance of a kind of rational abomination,
    a paradox absolute, we concede that :

    reason cannot comprehend this phenomenon

    therefore, reason is put in suspension

faith is a church upon a hill in a land
where reason suspends mystically
and reality relates mythically :

the accounts of the Gospel are, historically speaking,
probably not true and perhaps even demonstrably false

yet this fact would do nothing to damage faith –
even the opposite is true !

the historical inaccuracy of the Scripture only procures its profundity

faith is a glue
between man and God

one cannot know if religious doctrines are true
without seeing if they work,
but they cannot be seen to work,
unless one believes them in the first place !

you can not reap a harvest of faith
without fully entering these croplands !

there is no food here to eat, unless you cultivate it yourself
put faith in the clouds and the raindrops and weathers – or starve !

the true God is experienced in the threshing,
not in the fantasy of being done with it   

and redemption is to be found in the actual fall –
not in bragging beforehand about
how hard the mountain is to climb....

   fool !
   this is not a commodity you can try on
   before you decide to purchase it !

faith comes first – a leap of faith :
then comes, by hard work or mystical fortuity or both,
a chance and glance at redemption

ask yourself : what ocean can you cross without losing sight of the shore ?

true faith is to let go
and follow the voice in the darkness

true faith is true humility :
for there is nothing as vulnerable

faith, trust, beauty and attention
are the greatest gifts a human person
can possibly bestow on God or another person,
and they are the building blocks of the mystical union with God,
each transcendent, in their own right,
of reason, logic and laws

Pascal was right :

the human being is forced to an existential gamble
regarding the existence of God
regarding fundamental reality and
regarding redemption :

there is no way to know if God exists or not,
there is no way to know even how to know !
 
but i do not want to burn in hell forever  

   so i pray
   again