Blind Faith : Blind Folly

28 juin 2013

"POSEIDON PROTEGE NOUS"

In the Port Vieux, the Old Port of Biarritz, there is a small shop dealing in underwater equipment for fishermen which has a metal plate hanging above the door with the inscription "Poseidon Protège Nous", "Poseidon Protect Us". Zeus' brother, the God...

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Tags: Superstition, Prayer

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22 juin 2013

TESTIMONY FROM A FORMER BELIEVER ON THE BRINK

THOM, the most assiduous contributor to the commentaries on this blog, has written me a letter he did not intend for publication. But as the personal testimony of his itinerary from Catholicism to atheism, it deserves, I feel, to be read by Believers...

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Tags: Renouncing faith

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19 juin 2013

A SUCKER EVERY DAY

I have just heard on French radio an advertisement for a bank. It consisted of the anonymous testimony of one of the bank's supposed customers actually saying that she is convinced that her banker puts her interest before his own. I hope you are smiling...

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Tags: Credulity

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19 juin 2013

WHAT A COINCIDENCE !

We have all been part of those oneupmanship conversations where someone's anecdote, stretched out for the greatest effect, about an amazing coincidence s/he experienced, inevitably leads to the recounting of even more amazing coincidences. My favorite...

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Tags: Chance, Origin of Life, Origin of Universe, Superstition

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15 juin 2013

YOUR TURN

No, this is not another reminder that I would welcome any comments you may like to post on this blog concerning these Reflections (though if you do take the hint, so much the better). This time I want simply to share with you, in view of my age (76 and...

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Tags: Death, Destiny, Faithful departed, Life-expectancy, Mandela

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15 juin 2013

"DIEU ET MON DROIT"

English-speakers around the world, and even citizens of the Mother Country, are often unaware of the historical and linguistic links between England and France. The motto on the British coat-of-arms should serve to remind us all that for three hundred...

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Tags: Divine Right, Honi soit, Tolerance

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10 juin 2013

THE TIMELESSNESS OF ETERNITY

"- A non-material entity (if one can speak in any meaningful way of an "entity" that is non-material), - which has existed forever (if one can speak of existence in anything other than a temporal and hence material sense), - and is omniscient (if one...

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8 juin 2013

"INFERNO" : HELL, " NONFIRE" ?

Dan Brown has done it again. Inferno will not fail to disappoint his faithful fans who will find themselves in familiar territory. With another breathless chase across the city, Florence this time, another smashingly beautiful heroine, this time with...

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