Whenever people ask me why I believe in God I answer, “I believe in him because I can’t help it.”
Swiss Reformed theologian Karl Barth (1886-1968) was right when he said that man has an “incurable God sickness.” Atheism is of the lip rather than the heart. People may deny God with the tops of their heads but they believe in him with the bottoms of their hearts. Most atheism is a front—a cover-up, a smoke screen for some emotional or moral problem.
The great strength of the Christian interpretation of life is that there is no satisfying alternative to it.
The epicurean philosophy says that we are to live for pleasure alone. Its motto is “Let us eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we...