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Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind & strength Love your neighbour as you… Love your self. Love of God, neighbour and self are all interwoven. I’ve been thinking lately about confession, which – like love – occurs in relationship. Protestants often are quick to give reasons why they don’t confess to a priest like Catholics. “Through Christ, . . . → Read More: the (w)hole in our confession I read this and especially liked these points: Theology, in light of the greatness of God, is best characterized as human “sighing” and “stammering” —regardless of its sophistication, expansiveness, or insight: “Now we have only a dim perception of him, the living God. There can be no talk of knowing him, of ‘having’ him. What awkward sighing and stammering there . . . → Read More: barth on theology I saw a bumper sticker the other day that read: “the goddess is dancing” The car probably belongs to an adherent of one kind or other of ‘new-age’ spirituality. But I caught myself and stopped short of easy dismissal-ism. I asked myself, “Hey, cannot a Christian in a sense say the same thing?” After all, the Bible does include feminine . . . → Read More: dancing goddess The ‘proper’ basis for the personal identity of any given human is a hard thing to derive… if you’re limited to the tools of, say, science. Science wonderfully (and tragically in the case of murder, hate, discrimination, etc.) describes what humans ‘do’ (human doings), but not what/who humans ‘are’ (human beings). I’d want to affirm that ‘doing’ (as well as . . . → Read More: sex & identity chance & necessity | random & planned | chaos & order | freedom & determinism The phrase ‘by chance’ refers to an event/result happening without compulsion or determination – we say the situation/result ‘did not have to be that way’. The phrase ‘of necessity’ refers to an event/result happening according to compulsion or law – we say the situation/result ‘had . . . → Read More: had to be chance? Those who hold that all things (the universe/multiverse/whatever) began to exist and were created (by an ultimate Creator or First/bottom Cause), and those who hold that all things (the universe/multiverse/whatever) ‘have always existed in some form/state’ agree on (at least) one point… …namely that there is indeed an uncreated ‘thing’ which cannot be questioned, caused, created, ‘got behind’, etc. The . . . → Read More: uncreated thing Cheers to Bryson for directing me to an essay, which I discovered was one over several over at The John Templeton Foundation. The essays are comprised answers to ‘big questions’ from a variety of perspectives – theist, atheist and agnostic. They make for interesting reading whatever your beliefs are. Two of the ‘big questions‘ essays were of particular interest to . . . → Read More: ‘big question’ essays Thanks, Ian Luxmoore… …for a friendly, respectful, engaging and thoroughly enjoyable conversation about life, god, the universe, morality and all the rest. Ken Perrott recently drew attention to a new book called The Six Ways of Atheism: New Logical Disproofs of the Existence of God by Geoffrey Berg. At the site related to the book, there are summaries of the (as the site says) “six improved arguments for atheism”. Now, I’m terribly sorry, but if these are ‘improved’ arguments for atheism, then . . . → Read More: illogical atheism |
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