Voice of Nature

before God and pray together. He said, “You are not a very orthodox Jew, and I am not an Orthodox Quaker, but we need to pray.” And they knelt and prayed according to Christian worship. Bertrand Russell British philosopher Bertrand Russell was regarded as a staunch atheist. But his autobiography reveals that no matter how hardened an atheist a person may become, he cannot free himself from his innate nature. In 1952, Russell went to Greece for the first time. Referring to this journey, he writes that whatever he saw greatly interested him. With one aspect, he says, he was a little surprised. He went to a church, and he reflects on this as follows: “To my astonishment, I felt more at home in this little church than in the Parthenon or any other Greek buildings of Pagan times. I realized then that the Christian outlook had a firmer hold upon me than I had imagined. The hold was not upon my belief but upon my feelings.” These are the words of a person who authored a book titled Why I Am Not A Christian. The fact is that Russell’s words are a call of his innate nature. Awareness of God is deeply embedded inside every person’s nature from beforehand. Even if a person wants to, they cannot remove it from themselves. This is why ‘big’ atheists and deniers of God remain dissatisfied internally with their denial of God, and in particularly challenging times, they race towards that very same thing that they had earlier been denying.