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Why do we see things differently?

A new online friend, Bill, invited me to guest post today on his blog, Friendly Christian.

Bill recently ran across Hemant’s story and website, Friendly Atheist. Bill decided he’d like to follow Hemant’s lead and he renamed his blog the Friendly Christian. Hemant mentioned Bill’s blog and a number of atheists went to check it out. Since then, Bill has had a number of atheist visitors and active Christian-atheist conversation on his blog.

This is what I posted on Bill’s blog today.

I’m curious about how differently Christians and atheists (evidently) see the world. The other day Gods Gal was saying she can’t look at the world outside without seeing evidence of God. hoverfrog, writerdd and siamang responded that when they look at the world outside they don’t see God at all. (That conversation is in comments #49-#52 on What If…)

Why do we see things so differently?

• Do you think it’s because you’re open to what’s real, but those who see differently are too biased to see clearly the way you do?
• Do you think you’re smarter than those who see differently from you?
• Do you (if you believe in God) think people can only see evidence of God if he lets them see it – and that’s why some see it and some don’t?

Here’s the tricky part. :-) See if you can answer these questions without offending those who see differently from you.

08-22-2007 |