about belief and non-belief

Submitted by G.Vishvas (India), Jan 17, 2010 at 04:42

Respected Mr. Tovey

Many thanks for your friendly email. It reaches the heart of every believing faithful christian. But what do you do with someone who does not go by belief? If one believes (in the christian way) then what you write is clear. But what is for the one who does not? How does your god deal with the non-believers? How does he convince the non-believers? What does he do when he realizes that human believers and missionaries cannot be as convincing as he himself? Is every non-believer automatically a rogue? If you do not or cannot understand me - does your god understand me and my real logical difficulties? I think god does shirk his responsibility by putting the burden of spreading faith (true faith) upon human beings. Besides that there is a lot of illogical, absurd, unnecessary and even dangerous stuff in every faith or belief system. We human beings have had enough sufferings because of this illogical etc. stuff. If god is almighty and all-knowing then he should create something that cannot be misused, misrepresented, falsely interpreted etc.

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