On Being Indignant
Yet, while this is less frightening, without a personal cause it is much harder to imagine (and explain) the intervention of a personal God in a presumed impersonal universe.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
God is at least the natural forces that created and sustain the universe as experienced via a psychosocial model in human brains that naturally emerges from innate biases. Even if that is a comprehensive definition for God, the pursuit of this personal, subjective experience can provide meaning, peace, and empathy for others.
Mike McHargue • Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
Someone like Uncle Charles makes unbelief plausible but far from inevitable. You now know someone who doesn’t believe in God or transcendence, contending that all is material, but that’s all it is until freshman biology or physics 101.
Andrew Root • The Pastor in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #2): Ministry to People Who No Longer Need a God
Most who continue with a conception of God explain that they have individually chosen to keep that picket in their lives for their own individual reasons. It is authenticity that pushes and justifies them in keeping the picket nailed to the fence of their individual lives.