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May 23, 2005

How Is It Possible to Believe in God?

NPR has been airing a series titled This I Believe allowing people an opportunity to express their deepest beliefs - from visions of whirled peas to what not. Today William F. Buckley, Jr. read his essay and it was simply superb.

Here is a one part:

This I believe: that it is intellectually easier to credit a divine intelligence than to submit dumbly to felicitous congeries about nature. As a child, I was struck by the short story. It told of a man at a bar who boasted of his rootlessness, derisively dismissing the jingoistic patrons to his left and to his right. But later in the evening, one man speaks an animadversion on a little principality in the Balkans and is met with the clenched fist of the man without a country, who would not endure this insult to the place where he was born.

So I believe that it is as likely that there should be a man without a country, as a world without a creator.

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