Emotional Suicide

Christians and other “people of faith” have often been accused of committing “intellectual suicide” .

And maybe for certain people in certain times this may have been true. However,  the overwhelming majority of Christians have not committed this “intellecticide” . Not just because we have become more intellectually engaged in recent decades but because it’s simply not necessary to turn off the mind. We believe in a God who created the mind, the intellect, reason and logic.

Christianity is, in fact, a very reasonable world view ( and once experienced , I believe it becomes confirmed) . Yes, at some point it takes faith. But all world views do. Some like to pretend they don’t , but we , as the human race in sum, simply do not have the answers to all of life’s questions – be it the origins of life or the endings of life – it is all hypothesis, theory, speculation. 

So all humans, and I do propose ALL, have faith in something.   It may be faith that something IS or faith that it IS NOT – but it is faith.

So my question then is – as a society in our quest for truth -  have we committed emotional suicide? Or are we maybe just “cutting” as it were at our emotions?

If so, how long can we ignore the symptoms of a sick heart?

To be sure, emotions and feelings alone are not a very reliable resource – but I wholeheartedly believe they are an absolute necessity in the quest for truth. Imagine – using logic and emotion! We could get somewhere.


I suppose we could replace the word "emotion" with  "experience" and still be talking along the same lines.  Because after all, a world view must be actually liveable in the real day-to-day world.

I sometimes look at it this way – I can study a famous person from many aspects, I can analyze their words and actions or lack thereof, I can read the tabloids or their exhaustive biography but I cannot truly KNOW that person until I have developed a personal relationship with them.

Until I have let down the guard on my heart and let a relationship happen – for good or bad.  Until we have talked, shared experiences, been in deep troubles together I don't really know that person. 

 I mean even “The Big Bang Theory’s” Sheldon loves his Mee-Maw and desperately wants his consciousness to be uploaded into an independent orbiting satellite to last for eternity.

This paradox takes its form when I hear of one man who exclaimed “There is no God, I hate God.”

We can believe there is no God, but we cannot hate Him at the same time – for that betrays our underlying belief in Him.

I think that if we get down to it -  our own hurts, our pride and rebellion colours our views far more than we’d like to admit.

I guess all that I am really trying to say  is that in this age of Intellectualism ( which is not necessarily bad of course) we may have swung the pendulum too far and forgot that the heart, whether we like it or not, makes many decisions for us. 

Let the heart and mind search for truth in harmony. Let us not be afraid of faith… because we must all deal with it.

Let’s just place our faith well!