Blind Faith : Blind Folly

28 mai 2013

STICKS AND STONES

Am I allowed to say that what someone is saying is stupid (even without saying what I probably think : that HE or SHE is stupid) ? The Bible has no hesitation in calling atheists like me fools. Galileo in his famous letter to Kepler in 1597 did not mince...

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26 mai 2013

"DESTROY RELIGION !" REALLY ?

Some of my readers might think that "he insisteth too much", not only by constantly repeating the mantra, but by apparently inciting to violence ! I have already explained that the phrase is not only wishful thinking (in Latin, "desiderium privatum",...

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23 mai 2013

"GOD BLESS MOORE"

When you have lived for seven years in Oklahoma, when you have lived through and survived tornadoes in Tulsa, when you have visited personally the town of Moore before it was devastated in May 2013 by Tornado Alley winds worthy of the Apocalypse, you...

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21 mai 2013

COMPOSTELLA : COMPOS MENTIS ?

To my doctor's regret, I have never been a great walker. She would be happy if I just did my daily thirty minute constitutional. But even that is an effort, to say nothing of joining a club of fanatic, retired back-packers who trudge around the villages...

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Tags: Pilgrimages

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18 mai 2013

PROVE JUST TWO CLAIMS AND I REST MY CASE !

You can forget the interminable arguments about the existence of God, Intelligent Design, the problem of evil and the origin of moral imperatives. You can shelve all that palaver, including mine, about Jesus' divinity, His miracles, His Resurrection,...

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16 mai 2013

FELLOW-ATHEISTS, LET'S ADMIT THAT GOD EXISTS !

I am not suggesting that we have been wrong all these years. But what if we tried to take seriously, for a moment, the opposition's arguments, to put ourselves in their moccasins, to see it their way for just as long as it takes me to compose this Reflection....

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13 mai 2013

"I AM A RIVER FOR MY PEOPLE !"

The grandiloquent self-congratulation of the black-robed Arab chieftain, played by Anthony Quinn, become an ally of Lawrence of Arabia in the famous film, made movie-goers smile. The point, however, is not the movie but the metaphor. Rivers, as figures...

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Tags: Religion and Art

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13 mai 2013

"PREACHING TO THE CHOIR"

It is not exactly a scoop to assert that John Grisham has a way with words. He can take a cliché and turn it into something worthy even of becoming a title on this blog ! The "master of the legal thriller", author of over twenty best-selling novels, used...

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11 mai 2013

YES YOU CAN ... COMMENT !

Some readers already have, some would like to but are afraid, others haven't because they don't know how. It's a bit hard to see, but there in tiny characters below each of my postings is the word commentaires, French that is self-explanatory to English-speakers...

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11 mai 2013

THE LAST POST ?

Most people do not like talking about death, notably that of living family members but especially of their own. My family does not like to hear me talking of mine. When I was a kid, puritanism and puerile prudishness prevented people from using words...

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