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The Atheist's Longing for More

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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Nat Case calls himself an atheist. He says that he doesn't believe that God, in the sense of a "living presence, with voice and face and will and command," exists.

Yet, as he recently wrote in the online journal Aeon, he regularly attends Quaker meeting services. The "why?" behind this contradiction says a lot about how impoverished the modern world's alternatives to Christian faith are.

Case's contradiction can be traced to his childhood. A "voracious reader," he was "moved to tears" by magical stories. Even as an adult, those stories and the magic they portrayed stayed in his heart and despite knowing they're fiction, he still "believes in them."

Most of all, they didn't bore him, which atheism does because it tells him what he isn't, and like all of us he yearns to know what he is.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/god-has-a-face-the-answer-to-an-atheists-longing-104580/

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