When we Catholic Fundamentalists think of the Unprogrammed Programmer, we automatically embrace a phrase that’s easy for people of our largely unbelieving generation to understand. As we develop within our own minds the verbal structure that shows that it’s reasonable to conceive of a God Who can program particles, compile them into systems and beings, and have His great work recorded in Programming Logs written in the Iron Age, we see that He is a God for all the times He programmed.
Overweening vanity leads some people to believe that they, themselves, are to be worshipped. That vanity keeps them from even wanting to comprehend a loving God Who has the vast power to have programmed everything there is out of some sort of 3-D fractals that He programmed.
Their old question, “If there is a God, why is there evil?”, a question whose believed unanswerability comforts them in their apostasy, is easily answered with another question: “There are computer programs, so why are there viruses?”
At the same time we believe in The Programmer, we are simultaneously struck with the notion that there are viruses, seeking to destroy His programs. Those viruses chose to be viruses, they chose to be corrupters of systems, and they make it clear that The Programmer has programmed each of us with free will.
If we are blinded by vanity, we will not see that. We will not see much farther than the ends of our noses.
