Sewell: I don’t know whether or not God exists, let me just say that. I certainly don’t think that God is an old man in the sky; I don’t believe that God intervenes to give me goodies if I ask for them.
Hitchens: You don’t believe he’s an interventionist of any kind?
Sewell: I’m kind of an agnostic on that one. God is a mystery to me. I choose to believe because—and this is a very practical thing for me—I seem to live with more integrity when I find myself accountable to something larger than myself. That thing larger than myself I call “God,” but it’s a metaphor. That God is an emptiness out of which everything comes. Perhaps I would say God is “reality” or “what is.” You see, we’re trying to describe the infinite with the language of the finite. My faith is that I put all that I am and all that I have on the line for that which I do not know.
A conversation between Unitarian minister Marilyn Sewell and infamous atheist Christopher Hitchens
Interesting to see this entire dialog between a unitarian and an atheist. My pastor quoted a unitarian universalist as saying in response to what his religion believed “well nothing really” which seems to fit quite well here. At least Hitchens has an actual belief.
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