Tag: God

• Tis mad idolatry to make the service greater than the god.

  I have never been a fervent believer in the Divine, but as I have aged, the need for a radical harmonization of apostolic doctrines has become increasingly obvious to me. As for the institutions that act as if they alone have discovered the cosmic truth, I can only say I am reminded of a child’s […]

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  October 26, 2022

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  Abrahamic tradition, Aeon.co, belief, Benjamin Grant Purzycki, God, mind of god, moralistic gods, omniscience, parents, social bonds, University of British Columbia

• 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

• She wears her faith but as the fashion of her phone.

  Everything is a matter of time, isn’t it? Everything changes. Like the apocryphal monkeys typing away infinitely, everything will be written. Everything will be transmogrified somewhere. Some time. Somehow. I suppose that should be a comfort, but I can’t escape the nagging feeling that there is something unrequited in all that: an imbalance between now […]

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  October 3, 2017

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  Age, Al-Quran, apps, BBC news, Bible, change, Christianity, Codec Research Centre for Digital Theology, Durham University, evolution, God, hijab, moralistic therapeutic deism, Much Ado About Nothing, Pew Research Centre, religion, reverend Peter Philips, Shakespeare, smartphone, T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Time, Wikipedia