Martin Luther King, Jr. did not have to defend his faith nor how his faith led him to lead a movement for change that is still effecting each of us today. Bishop Desmond Tutu is a beacon of sanity in the midst of a sea of unrest and chaos in South Africa. Bishop Gene Robinson is likewise here in this country a true believer who has the signal importance of following his faith through some of the harshest circumstances and yet . . .
Greta Christian (she of the unfortunate name) is writing these seemingly logical, scientific proofs of the impossibility of God by setting standards of her own choosing. She equates the time involved in evolution as being unreasonably long. Yikes, my mind cries out as my eyes skim the screen. Greta's time is not God's time. There is just logically so many fallacies in her arguments but the prime ones rest on her assumptions of what must be so based on . . . her assumptions of what must be so. Humans, God does love them, have this incredible capacity to both see and not to see. Yet, in her "belief" that scientific proof exists that discount any God, there is only this one basis of proof, what she considers to be reasonable.
If God were this easily understood and if we all could understand exactly what was in store for us all, then we could align ourselves with those who think like Greta. But if God is ineffable, then we do the best we can to understand and let our lives be guided not just by reason or even just by faith but also by what the Holy Spirit pushes us to do.
In other words, things can be seemingly unreasonable, irrational and still be within God's plan. There are those who dedicate their lives, such as Martin Luther King, Jr. did and Bishops Tutu and Robinson do now and they are real beacons to those who believe. They are not perfect, they are human beings who daily struggle to understand what God intends and are good models for those of us who also believe.
