The Logic Box

"I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification."


-Chesterton

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Not that he's saying that atheists are neccesarily sad people, but that their state is reductionary, i.e. reality is confined to the box of reason. Reality, it seems for one, is constrained to logic. And although I believe A is A, that reality is what is, I don't believe we are always capable of arriving at an imminent, dynamic comprehension of reality by the use of reason alone. If a God such as the Church or Christianity hold to exist did exist qua infinite being, there is simply no way that he, as such would "fit" into a logical, rational definition, as the defintion is essentialy, qua definition, bound up in finitude. Reason is capable of simply "pointing to" reality. It could never encapsulate God accurately if he were to exist as "infinite." The word infinite in itself is right at this moment merely "pointing to" a shadow of comprehension of what the word is supposed to mean. And that is even the word/divine aspect as yet undefined!

God cannot be constrained to his definition, only "pointed to" by it.

Logic is a useful science for people who find it important to define and classify and universalize and generalize reality. I don't really see the point of compartmentalizing the cosmos, or compartmentalizing God. He is one. Division and disunity and dischord result from a full lacking of a unified one, so why do we atempt to seperate and divide him in mental categorical definitions?