To each of my posts, there is usually a backstory. I decided to start a series on this blog to give you some background information on what inspired me to write a particular post on my www.sacerdotus.com blog.
My post there, "No Evidence for God, therefore No God" has been extremely popular since its debut on November 13, 2012 (Year of Faith). The post basically deals with the idea that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" (Sagan) and expounds on how faith and reason are related, as C.K. Chesterton wrote:
"Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all."
The backstory of this post comes from a visit to a parish where the Blessed Sacrament was exposed in a Monstrance. While I was there praying before Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, I noticed a young girl enter who was blind. The girl entered the large church building walking steadily with only the sound of taps from her 'white cane' as she made her way down the aisle. This course of events fascinated me because this young girl despite being blind, knew where the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament was. She genuflected right in line with the monstrance as if she had the vision that would allow her brain to calculate the distance and angles necessary to be in perfect alignment before the monstrance. No one guided her. She had only her stick and made here way perfectly to pray.
Sometimes I have problems finding the Tabernacle at churches and I have good vision, so I can't imagine how it must be to only perceive total darkness. What's remarkable is that despite this, she was able to find Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Immediately, Helen Keller came to mind along with the words for the blog which is now, " "No Evidence for God, therefore No God."
If this young blind girl was able to find Jesus without her eyes, an atheist can find God even without using his/her senses. Thank you God and thank you young blind girl for the inspiration!
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