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In his recent book on Austen Farrer ( Light in a Burning-Glass <\/em> ), Robert Slocum notes that farrer recognized that human beungs are never themselves by themselves. Children are \u201clike idiots in the cradle\u201d who would remain so \u201cif no one had smiled them into smiling back, or talked us into talking.\u201d We become humans when we \u201cwe are smiled and talked into being so.\u201d So too, we are \u201ctalked and loved into religious belief.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In his recent book on Austen Farrer ( Light in a Burning-Glass ), Robert Slocum notes that farrer recognized that human beungs are never themselves by themselves. Children are \u201clike idiots in the cradle\u201d who would remain so \u201cif no one had smiled them into smiling back, or talked us into talking.\u201d We become humans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"\n