Bertrand Russell, philosopher and mathematician, was the author of Why I am Not a Christian. Katherine Tait, Russell’s daughter, wrote: “I would have liked to convince my father that I had found what he had been looking for, the ineffable something he had longed for all his life. I would have liked to persuade him that the search for God does not have to be vain. But it was hopeless. He had known too many…bleak moralists who sucked the joy from life and persecuted their opponents; he would never have been able to see the truth they were hiding.” Russell wrote in his Autobiography, “Nothing can penetrate the loneliness of the human heart except the highest intensity of the sort of love the religious teachers have preached” (p 146). It’s true: “I am the Lord, and there is no one else…I girded you, though you have not known Me” (Isa 45:5). Russell used the mind God gave him to argue himself out of the only loving relationship he knew could fill the void in the human heart.
Today’s Reading: Genesis 7-9 Memorize: Numbers 23:19