wisdomfish:

“Supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind. In that case, nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me, as a by-product, the sensation I call thought. But, if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It’s like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can’t trust my own thinking, of course I can’t trust the arguments leading to Atheism, and therefore have no reason to be an Atheist, or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought: so I can never use thought to disbelieve in God.”

— C.S. Lewis

This is a verbose version of Proverbs 3:5.  It is a common ploy to keep people like you from thinking.  Any god that would demand a thoughtless following is a god unworthy of worship.  In any case, Lewis makes the same mistake modern day Christians make, namely that said “intelligence” is the Judeo-Christian god.  I would be weary of making such a conclusion — one that implies that a god that was concerned with the correct manner of sacrificing an animal is the god that created the universe.  I would be weary of drawing a conclusion that says that a celestial child murderer and ethnic cleanser is the “intelligence” behind our universe — assuming there is such an intelligence.  Nonetheless, this is usually apologetic bunk to keep people from thinking.  It’s too bad that it’s no longer working — 19% and climbing in the US.