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The Reason for God by Timothy Keller

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May 10, 10

Read in April, 2009

This book has two sections: reasons not to believe in God (which he then refutes) and reasons to believe in God.

I didn't particularly care for this, because I found some of his reasons suspect. Like, for example, he says, "Well, if you don't believe that Jesus existed, died and was resurrected, explain how the Church managed to flourish." And it's like, well, other religions believe other things that I may or may not agree with, and it doesn't matter if I don't believe, say, that a great flood covered the entire earth and that hence we are all descended from Noah now. I don't need to offer up another explanation.

(That's the first example I could come up with, because I'm not super familiar with Islam or many of the other major religions.)

Ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, and now we know that's not true. So there has to be a better basis than "explain why it isn't true."

But I am still glad I read it because I had an epiphany--it doesn't matter what Timothy Keller says. I have to come to this on my own, and at least I'm thinking about it.

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