Something Knows

One of my favorite living literary authors is Cormac McCarthy. His wrestlings with death and God I find quite compelling in his books. I do not embrace his view but his ability to deal with death's poignancy and wrestle with the mammoth reality of God or the reality of no God is compelling nevertheless. The following comes from The Crossing in his masterful work The Border Trilogy:

"Men do not turn from God easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Somethings knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him." p. 148