A letter writer advised a Sydney newspaper to print actual "news" and leave the fables - stories not founded on fact, or stories about supernatural beings - "to those who still believe in them."
Clearly, the writer's perspective of reality falls short of that held by followers of the world's great religions who have a transcendental view of reality that has been described as "God's eye of reality". If God is indeed the Creator of all things seen and unseen, human perception of reality must, by its nature, fall infinitely short of God who IS.
We must keep in mind that external reality comes to us, mere mortals, from two sources: external objects, and our internal apparatus of perception. This becomes very clear, for example, when we look at the green colour of a Granny Smith apple, smell its aroma, and taste its flavour. We may realise then that those three aspects (colour, aroma and flavour) are not in the apple but in the person who sees the apple, smells it, and takes a bite.
Atheists persist in claiming that their reason is capable of figuring out all there is between 'heaven and earth', the religious believer, on the other hand, acknowledges the limits of human knowledge, and admits there has to be a reality which our senses and minds cannot fathom; a reality referred to as "God".
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