I want to sigh about something, My God. Not everyone I speak who is atheist thinks so, but I often hear it: they think that religious people are weak and need something to hold on to.
It's not my experience. I have always felt that You existed, and always known that there is a great mystery behind ordinary daily life. Of course it is nice if you feel weak to have something as faith to hold on to and to be able to lean on You. That is what happens too.
But my faith mainly stems from a sumption of a great mystery. And a sense that there is a whole hidden world, different from what we see and hear and can touch. And my experience with Something Big is also there when I see beautiful things, overwhelming nature or a newborn baby.
Who has actually been misled?
Would You like to elaborate
on this?
Your passion is Mine.
Most people who believe do so from their hearts, from the surrender of their mind, from the feeling that there is something powerful and great and mysterious under and behind physical life. Most of the time, they believe not out of weakness but out of strength. Usually religious people do not call on God when they need something to hold on to, but when they want to express their gratitude and awe and happiness.
Don't worry about atheists who think that religious people are weak. Why are you working on this? Why do you put energy into this? Let atheists dwell in their excellent delusion that they think they know how the world works. They will find out. In the meantime, you could pray for them, because the more they are prayed for, the greater the chance that they will come to realization in this life.
My blessings to atheists.
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