Joel Kontinen
Malcolm Muggeridge (1903 –1990) was an English author and journalist. For most of his life he was agnostic, but he became a Christian in the 1960s after having seen what disbelief in God could do.
In a radio broadcast he stated:
“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we’ve developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”
This includes belief in the impossible, for instance, that we can get something from nothing, that non-life can somehow spontaneously turn into life for no obvious reasons at all. Or that our universe is just one among many others.
Source:
Muggeridge, Malcolm. 1966. An Eighth Deadly Sin. Woman’s Hour radio broadcast (March 23, 1966). Quoted in Malcolm Muggeridge and Christopher Ralling. 1967. Muggeridge Through the Microphone: B.B.C. Radio and Television. London: British Broadcasting Corporation.
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