Lewis put it this way: “A car is made to run on gasoline. Chesterton observed, “He who does not believe in God will believe in anything.” Writer C.S. It’s a short leap to suggest that the same kind of unseen forces are at work in our spiritual life.Ĭenturies later, G.K. Pascal discovered that air itself is matter, and that invisible forces are pushing and pulling on the space around us. He was also a mathematician and scientist who developed our modern physics concept of the vacuum. It’s a void that we can attempt to fill with other things, but only God will truly fit. Blaise Pascal, the 17th-century French philosopher, posited the idea of a God-shaped hole within every human heart. The religious instinct is not a new idea. All these things I have listed are good when rightly ordered, when they are not distorted into demagoguery. One can make pilgrimage to other houses of worship with their distinctive rituals: sports arenas, gyms, concert halls and golf courses.
There are alternate Scriptures, such as home décor magazines, social media sites and preferred news channels. Some revere food, money, travel or shopping. Instead of the one true God, some will worship a celebrity, a political leader, a significant other, their children or grandchildren, a career path or a hobby. More commonly, those who say that they reject God simply find another “god” to worship instead, another idol to satisfy the religious instinct. According to this theory, true atheism is extremely rare. Do humans have a religious instinct? Despite recent data, which point to increasing numbers of self-identified non-believers, a theory persists that people have an innate need to worship.
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