Our God — Page 203
Refutation of Arguments Supporting Atheism 203 not resist the effect of his surroundings. As he was not a Christian, it would not be surprising if he might have thought that Jesus, too, suffered from an inferiority complex! O sagacity, you have become a calamity for me! The problem is that sometimes even sensible people do not distinguish between the possibility of something happening and that which has actually happened. During their intellectual pur- suits, they look for the grounds for a possibility, and when they are convinced that something could have happened in a particular way, they blindly jump to the conclusion that it must have hap- pened that way. Obviously, possibility is one thing and something actually happening is quite another. There are millions of things that can happen in this world, but how many of them actually hap- pen? It is naïve to argue that something has happened just because it can. Let us assume that jealousy can develop subconsciously in a son at times; and that, consequently, he feels a vacuum in his mind when he grows up as he keeps looking for his childhood father-figure; and that this mental vacuum sometimes leads him to the idea of a Higher Being to replace this father-figure. In spite of all these remote possibilities, how can it be proved that all these things actually happened this way amongst all the nations, who were at least initially isolated from each other, in different parts of the world, at different times? Strangely enough, even if we accept that all these possibilities are valid, they are vague and far-fetched compared to other possi- bilities. For instance, even if it is correct that the son can develop jealousy towards his father under certain circumstances, it is obvi- ous, as our experience shows, that it happens very rarely. By and large, the son remains loving and faithful to his father. Even if he