Irrational Rationallity

The other night one friend of mine asked another, "Do you not want for something more?"

The speaking friend had been explaining about how she had rejected Catholicism as a young adult and was now searching for spiritual fulfillment. She had spent some time considering herself as an atheist and found it terribly unfulfilling. She was unwilling to return to the religion she had left behind, and seemed to be spinning frantically in circles reaching out to the passing, flickering glimpses of something she couldn't quite make out.

The friend she was speaking to is an atheist who rejected the Hinduism of his family after moving to the USA and dredging through academia. He had been told that a rational person can not believe in something which cannot be empirically evidenced. His courses convinced him that, while the scientific method has not yet discovered all that there is to know, it has certainly disproved the idea of a spiritual world.

His response was simply that he did long for there to be more, but since there was nothing more, it was a silly desire.

Oh, how far we've come as a society! We know so much! We are so advanced that we have abandoned reality in order to map our surroundings.

One man said, "It is only that which we do not yet understand that we call God."
I say, "It is God that we do not yet understand. It is that which we do not understand that we call not God."

God is in everything and yet he is superior. He is not "he" and he is both "he" and "she". He is the scientific method and he is art. He is the answer and he is the question. He is our reality yet we do not realize him. He is found all around us yet he will not be discovered.