| David Bazan – Bearing Witness Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I have to disagree with the previous comment. David Bazan is not claiming that God cannot be a reality for him, he is saying God is not presently a reality for him. The main theme here is that Bazan sees no evidence. It's not that God does not or cannot exist, but rather that all the claims made about God (specifically about the Christian God and the Bible) are not reflected in the reality around him. This is why he is most comfortable with the term agnostic though he is back and forth when it comes to atheism. How can one bear witness to something one has not ever seen? As the New Atheism movement declares itself triumphant in the war against religion, I find David much more admirable and more intellectually honest. He cannot believe the Biblical narrative because it is too hard to "make the pieces fit" --- and even more to the point I think he believes they do not fit. To Bazan, the whole puzzle seems irrelevant because the God seems absent from the world. I happen to disagree (though I still have my own huge questions about the whole thing). I find the New Atheist perspective appalling because it is fraught with intellectual arrogance (which to me is an oxymoron). |
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