The Fool Has Said In His Heart

The Fool Has Said In His Heart

“The fool has said in his heart,

‘There is no God,’”

But so has the intellectuals,

the Professors,

the Prosecutors,

the psychologists,

the Presidents,

the Physicists,

the poets —

I watched a Jubilee video on Youtube where Jordan Peterson was surrounded by twenty atheists and their abrasive questions attempting to dismount the idea of an All-Powerful and All-Good God. Chaos versus purpose; nihilist versus belief. Peterson led with statements the atheists attacked with pigeon-holed questions burning strawmen with circular-arguments devoid of context. Intellectuals not trying to make sense; a bunch of Pilates asking Jesus, “What is truth?,” without giving Jesus a chance to respond. Peterson was the only person there searching for Jesus’ response, but even he failed to represent the truth in all its beauty, complexity, and glory. “A fool does not delight in understanding but only in revealing his own mind,” and so they all spoke for an hour and a half but no conversation was had. Silence is such a frightening thing. Saying “I don’t know,” might as well mean, “I know nothing,” but how can we grow unless we become like children? Tell me, how can we know the truth unless we quiet down and listen? 

“The fool has said in his heart,

‘There is no God,’”

and they have formulated their own equations

with their own regulations and deductions

like a vaticinium ex eventu

prophesying what they want to be true

but that’s not how we acquire truth.

Yes, “The fool has said in his heart,

‘There is no God.’

They are corrupt, they have 

committed abominable deeds;

there is no one who does good.”

Maybe Job was right when he said,

“Behold, I am insignificant; what

Can I reply to You?

I lay my hand on my mouth.

Once I have spoken, and I will not answer;

even twice, and I will add nothing more.”

Maybe wisdom is giving Jesus enough silence to speak.