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“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
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Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
Postmodernism: Dead But Not Gone @ The Gospel Coalition
No obituary appeared in The New York Times. Television newscasts offered no tribute. But make no mistake: postmodernism is dead. Even those who could foresee this end could do nothing to prevent its suicide. Demise was built into its very DNA.
Read it at The Gospel Coalition. Well worth your while.
It’s not unusual for people to dismiss the Bible because it was “only written by men.” How do you respond when you hear this challenge? What evidence would you give that the Bible is not just a human invention, but rather a supernatural revelation?
Greg Koukl of Stand to Reason gives you a reasoned response. Get the PDF here.
“If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite happiness in skinning a cat, then the religious philosopher can only draw one of two deductions. He must either deny the existence of God, as all atheists do; or he must deny the present union between God and man, as all Christians do. The new theologians seem to think it a highly rationalistic solution to deny the cat.”
The recently Eisner-awarded Chew is the only ongoing series I am reading at the moment. I like the underlying idea and it is well written, nicely drawn fun. Nothing very serious going underneath — whatever I mean by that I do not have the time to think about now — but there is something in the more recent issues the began to spin some cosmological threads. All of a sudden, out of the blue, appeared a line of mysterious writing across the sky:
Some people believe it is a sign from God. Others maintain this is some sort of “first contact” with an advanced alien race.
These are the options that we’d be talking about in real life, if something like this really happened. We’d have all TV channels airing debates between apocalyptic theologians and all sorts of UFO-people, trying to come to terms that, well, there is something else. And people would tune in, because of this I am certain: they would be scared.
The frame here is from issue #16.
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Napalming babies is bad.
Starving the poor is wicked.
Buying and selling each other is depraved.
Those who stood up to and died resisting Hitler, Stalin, Amin, and Pol Pot — and General Custer too — have earned salvation.
Those who acquiesced deserve to be damned.
There is in the world such a thing as evil.
[All together now:] Sez who?
God help us.
”What Can Sci-Fi Tell Us About God? by Ken MacLeod
An interesting piece by Ken MacLeod on The Guardian’s Comment is Free Belief-section:
Perhaps one way forward, as congruent with religion as with science, would be to take the plurality of worlds and the apparent absence of intelligent life thereon as an absent or hidden God’s way of telling us something. The various bodies of the solar system and indeed the universe may be uninhabited, but that’s only because God, or Nature, has left it up to us to fill them.
The discussion seems stuck on whether or not sci-fi writers are predominantly theist or atheist. *Yawn*
God and Logic -- Apologetics Information Ministry
We are created in the imago Dei–the image of God. This includes, among other attributes, the ability to reason.
Why does Batman get all effed up about about the use of a(n inverted) bat-symbol in the Gotham City sky (Legends of the Dark Knight #7, p. 3—4)? It is not like he owns the city sky or the symbol of the bat, or does he? What I read from this is more like an angry and jealous bloke in a cape rambling to some “baddies” about using “his” image in vain. (And the crooks did accomplish in attracting his attention, so they basically succeeded.) Who does he think he is? God?
