True Reality

Facts cannot provide Meaning!

What is true reality? For the materialist / atheist, true reality will be grounded in facts — the more scientifically we can observe the cosmos the more reality reveals itself. On the opposite side is the theists, those who believe there is a God who created the cosmos and that reality is not solely based on facts but rather reality reveals itself through spiritual-based mechanisms that provide meaning.

“Science makes us spectators of reality” (Fulton Sheen)

The problem with the materialist / atheist position is facts in and of themselves to do not provide meaning; facts only provide knowledge. Matthueu Pagaeu states in his book, “The Language of Creation” to see the world though the scientific / materialistic lens is to ask of things, “How does is work? What material is it made of?”, whereas the spiritual view of the world, still incorporating facts / material into the equation, asks, “What does it mean? What truth does it embody”. To access the meaning of things (and therefore revealing the true reality we live in) there are a number of spiritual based-mechanisms that can be used, mechanisms that extract divine (eternal) patterns from matter, things like storytelling, art, fairy-tails, myths, poetry, and music. These abstract mechanisms bringing meaning to facts; they reveal our true reality. However, even though these things can provide…