Tag: Catholicism

• Does the love of heaven make one heavenly?

  Why do find myself so attracted to articles about religion? I am not an adherent -religion does not stick to me- nor am I tempted to take the famous wager of the 17th century philosopher, Pascal: dare to live life as if God exists, because you’ve got nothing to lose if He doesn’t, and everything…

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  December 16, 2020

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  Alain de Botton, BBC Future, Catholicism, Charon, Christianity, Constantine, Edict of Milan, Edict of Thessalonica, God, Hinduism, Karl Marx, Linda Woodhead, Pascal’s Wager, polytheism, religion, Sigmund Freud, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, the River Styx, Theodosius, University of Lancaster, Voltaire

• We Know Not What We May Be

  There are times when we only seem to hear in sentences, and forget that their meaning and colour is dependent on the words –it’s like ignoring the rivers that feed a lake. It’s like assuming that the story of a wall is written in the bricks we notice, not the mortar we don’t. History can…

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  March 7, 2018

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  BBC Capital, Bible, bus passengers, Catholicism, CEO, dating profile, dating site, Flora Derounian, King James Bible, motherhouse, New Jerusalem Bible, nuns, women in the workforce, Women’s History Review, workforce