urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dejalu Marshall Marshall 2004-01-01T22:58:08Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:dejalu:879 2004-01-01T20:09:29Z 2004-01-01T22:58:08Z Say It Like You Mean It <p>-from Dan Brown's <strong>Angels&amp;Demons</strong>.</p> <p>"'And all the while, you proclaim the church is ignorant. But who is more ignorant? The man who cannot define lightning, or the man who does not respect its awesome power? The church is reaching out to you. Reaching out to everyone. And yet the more we reach, the more you push us away. Show me <em>proof</em> there is a God. I say use your telescopes to look the heavens, and tell me how there could <em>not</em> be a God!' The camerlengo had tears in his eyes now. 'You ask what does God look like. I say, where does that question come from? The answers are one and the same. Do you not see God in your science? How can you miss Him! You proclaim that even the slightest change in the force of gravity or the weight of an atom would have rendered our universe a lifeless mist rather than our magnificent sea of heavenly bodies, and yet you fail to see God's hand in <em>this</em>? Is it really much easier to believe that we simply chose the right card from a deck of billions? Have we become so spiritually bankrupt that we would rather believe in mathematical impossibility than in a power greater than us?'"</p> <p>One hell of a book -- go read it, now.</p>