{"id":205,"date":"2011-09-18T10:48:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T10:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/09\/18\/john-gray-can-religion-tell-us-more-than-science\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T10:48:00","slug":"john-gray-can-religion-tell-us-more-than-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/2011\/09\/18\/john-gray-can-religion-tell-us-more-than-science\/","title":{"rendered":"John Gray: Can Religion Tell Us More Than Science?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-14944470\">BBC website<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When he recounts the story of his conversion to Catholicism in his autobiography A Sort of Life, Graham Greene writes that he went for instruction to Father Trollope, a very tall and very fat man who had once been an actor in the West End.<\/p>\n<p>Trollope was a convert who became a priest and led a highly ascetic life, and Greene didn&#8217;t warm to him very much, at least to begin with.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the writer came to feel that in dealing with his instructor he was faced with &#8220;the challenge of an inexplicable goodness&#8221;. It was this impression &#8211; rather than any of the arguments the devout Father presented to the writer for the existence of God &#8211; that eventually led to Greene&#8217;s conversion.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments that were patiently rehearsed by Father Trollope faded from his memory, and Greene had no interest in retrieving them. &#8220;I cannot be bothered to remember,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;I accept.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that what Green accepted wasn&#8217;t what he called &#8220;those unconvincing philosophical arguments&#8221;. But what was it that he had accepted? <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-14944470\"><br \/>Continues..<\/a><span style=\"font-style:italic\"><\/p>\n<p>If I get time I may go through this paragraph by paragraph, as it&#8217;s fantastically instructive. However I haven&#8217;t found time to respond to Randal Rauser yet&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From BBC website&#8230; When he recounts the story of his conversion to Catholicism in his autobiography A Sort of Life, Graham Greene writes that he went for instruction to Father Trollope, a very tall and very fat man who had once been an actor in the West End. Trollope was a convert who became a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/believingbullshit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}