As I understand it, Atheism is rooted in the philosophy of materialism. Here is the definition, please correct me if I’m wrong: materialism is “the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications” (Google.com, 2014). Can I not believe in God and also agree with this philosophy? My religious tenets allow for this seeming paradox. Many passages of the Doctrine and Covenants claim that these things exist in a material fashion (see D&C 130:22, 131:7, and others) – “there is no such thing as immaterial matter” – and I agree. However, to say that this means that there is no God is like telling a man blind from birth that he is right to deny the existence of light because he has never experienced it. How would you describe light to this man? Where would you begin? Likewise, could it not be considered that our current technology simply has not yet caught up to spiritual claims? I assert spiritual experiences today to be analogous to electricity 3,000 years ago, clinical psychology 300 years ago, radio waves 150 years ago, inner-cellular bio-mechanics to Darwin, or the TCP stack to my Grandfather. They would call these things foolishness on the same grounds as an atheist today decries foolishness about the believer. Their denial may support their world view, but is it truth? I can see the rational of this denial as well as the folly. Could the relationship between truth and human experience not be the same with the existence of God.
Why do I go out on such a limb as to defend mere possibilities? Because I have experienced God and have difficulty explaining the light to the blind man. The difference here is that spiritual blindness is a choice. We are the technology that discerns this stuff – we just need to switch ourselves on. I did not set up this blog to attack atheism or defend my faith, but with the increasing attacks on my beliefs in politics and the media, I want to assert my stance and pull down the supposed superior attitude of some of those blind men, at least to those whose eyes are currently shut and blindly follow.