Over 200 tweets per minute flew out today around the subject “no god.” During the conversation peak, I encountered at least 50 tweets per second.

I discovered this trending topic as I returned from The Heritage Foundation’s blogger’s briefing around 2pm. The subject interests me so I spent time reading the tweets.

I was encouraged to find that not all tweets were in favor of “no god.” It was about 60/40 in favor of the non-believers.

However, the battle was vicious. Self-proclaimed atheists were expressing excitement over “no god’s” popularity, while people of faith were trying their best to defend the existence of a higher power.

In all honesty, and not due to my particular position, most of the hostile tweets were on the side of “no god.” The atheists expressed they thought anyone ignorant who believed.

Others had come to the point of seeing no purpose or design in the universe, and thus concluded “no god.”

As a conservative blogger, I am fully aware that just because one is conservative doesn’t necessarily mean you are a person of faith, and vice versa. So my point here is not to be convincing.

My purpose is to postulate that our modern view of science contributes heavily to the conversation I experienced today.

I listened to David Berlinski, Ph.D. and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, speak today at The Heritage Foundation’s blogger’s briefing. (What a coincidence given the #1 trending topic).

Berlinski proposed that the scientific community’s desire to explain our world naturally to the exclusion and intolerance of the divine is the reason for the divorce of faith and reason in our culture.

Based on today’s observation, I’m taking it a step further. I suggest the separation of faith and reason permeates our culture so vastly, that one is looked at as a fool if they dare have faith. How often do we hear the term “blind faith” to suggest that any and all faith is somehow unintelligent?

While maybe not traditionally religious, didn’t Isaac Newton, Copernicus and Galileo all believe in the existence of a supreame being?

Whatever the case, it’s been an interesting day for the subject, over 5,000 tweets per half hour is worth mentioning.

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