Ten years ago today this church split. It happened on a Sunday. I walked blindly into an ambush of grand proportions. People who had planned and prepared to overthrow this church’s leadership had everything ready. I didn’t even notice, I was so distraught, but there was a video camera set up at the back and microphones poised to record the whole take-down. Yes, the entire fiasco is on video-tape. Certain people were ready with adversarial challenges. One of the ring-leading... Read more
Prepare for the desert! Hitchens makes a strong statement in his book God is Not Dead: To ‘choose’ dogma and faith over doubt and experiment is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Which reminded me of something that Wendell Berry wrote in in his book, The Unsettling of America. Berry believes the pursuit of truth is better than the protection of it. Once the mind has “consented to be orthodoxâ€, then it becomes... Read more
I’m again digging into one of my favorite books that I’ve invested in, the great American essayist Wendell Berry’s Citizenship Papers. Here’s a quote: But the proposition that anything so multiple and large as a nation can be good is an insult to common sense. It is also dangerous, because it precludes any attempt at self-criticism or self-correction; it precludes public dialogue. It leads us far indeed from the traditions of religion and democracy that are intended to measure and... Read more
I just finished Christopher Hitchens’ book, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. In my opinion, it is an excellent book. It is well researched and well written. I much prefer this book over Sam Harris’, The End of Faith as well as Richard Dawkins’, The God Delusion. If you want to start reading what many scientists as well as some atheists are saying, I would suggest starting with this book. It is also beautifully and poetically reading. It’s... Read more
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