What Will Happen If We Stop Taking Ourselves for Granted? by Dr. Jeff Mirus

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, Dec 08, 2023

In a materialistic culture, the question of how anything ever came to exist seems irretrievably lost in the mists of time, and therefore of little practical interest. But this fundamental materialism also obscures a question that really ought to arise far more often that it does. Granted that we cannot go back in time to observe the origin of material life, another question ought still to prey on our minds: Why do we so often ignore or shy away from the nature of our own existence, not just as material beings, but as persons?

Look, it is one thing to throw up our hands and say we just don’t know why there should be something instead of nothing. This is, after all, a relatively impersonal question. While the argument that there must be an uncaused cause is unanswerable without begging the question, it also seems irrelevant to the immediacy of our daily affairs.  ….

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