While They Debate God's Existence, Earth Burns
Whether you argue for theism or atheism, does it bother you that while you are enjoying that ancient debate the thugs arre taking over the earth?
Whether you argue for theism or atheism, does it bother you that while you are enjoying that ancient debate the thugs arre taking over the earth?
In 1949 when I was 15 years of age, I was starting my last year at a boarding school in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Every night we had three or four hours of study in a communal study hall where you are not allowed to do anything except study. The last period of study was usually between 9:00 and 10:00 pm.
Prayer is a relationship not just an action and it comes in both primary and secondary modes.
Decisions on what is natural and unnatural define our humanity, but those determinations, unfortunately, are also and always conditioned by time and place, society and religion.
I am profoundly satisfied with my present life and also profoundly surprised. But, of course, satisfaction always trumps surprise.
On the one hand, questioning is the voice of conscience and the absence of one is the death of the other. So Socrates, for example, questioned relentlessly the contemporary faith of his fellow-Athenians and died a martyr for his too-successful examinations.
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