Reading an old post here Ben Myers says,
Anyway, let me give the last word to Dostoyevsky. In The Brothers Karamazov, the narrator remarks:
“It is not miracles that make a realist turn to religion. A true realist will, if he is an unbeliever, will always find the strength and the ability not to believe in a miracle, and if faced with a miracle as an undeniable fact, he will sooner disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact. And if he does admit it, he will admit it as a natural fact hitherto unknown to him. In a realist, faith does not arise from a miracle, but the miracle from faith.”
Another reason for me to start reading Dostoyevsky.
Anyway, let me give the last word to Dostoyevsky. In The Brothers Karamazov, the narrator remarks:
“It is not miracles that make a realist turn to religion. A true realist will, if he is an unbeliever, will always find the strength and the ability not to believe in a miracle, and if faced with a miracle as an undeniable fact, he will sooner disbelieve his own senses than admit the fact. And if he does admit it, he will admit it as a natural fact hitherto unknown to him. In a realist, faith does not arise from a miracle, but the miracle from faith.”
Another reason for me to start reading Dostoyevsky.
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