"I'm amused to see you so vigorously defending your own style of nonsense against somebody else's style. All these emperors without clothes, you all have your turfs to defend. This boy comes in and offers to prove God's existence and you . . . obviously wish him dead, gone, out of the church. To you he's a heretic."
John Updike
Roger's Version
Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Thursday, March 09, 2006
The Coroner of the Death of Belief in God
"The primary emphasis of Nietzsche's mature writings is that 'Belief in the Christian God has become unbelievable'---a statement that represents a cultural observation rather than a philosophical argument. 'What is now decisive against Christianity is our taste, no longer our reasons.' "
Western culture has not ceased to believe in God on account of unassailable philosophical reasons, but because of its shifted mood."
-Alister McGrath
The Twilight of Atheism
Western culture has not ceased to believe in God on account of unassailable philosophical reasons, but because of its shifted mood."
-Alister McGrath
The Twilight of Atheism
The Coroner of the Death of God
Nietzsche did not form a project to kill God. He found him dead in the soul of his contemporaries.
-Albert Camus
-Albert Camus
Spring Cleaning
She: Do you believe in god?
He: Yes.
She: Why?
He: Well i just think there has to be a god.
She: Why?
He: Well i just don't think it could all just have happened.
She: But my question is why you think those things. I get the point that you believe them. My question is why, not whether.
He: Yes.
She: Why?
He: Well i just think there has to be a god.
She: Why?
He: Well i just don't think it could all just have happened.
She: But my question is why you think those things. I get the point that you believe them. My question is why, not whether.
Chain Drive
Justaposing views and their respective cases is an engine of clarity.
Sunday, February 05, 2006
Not A Match
Never let someone be your priority
while allowing yourself to be their option
while allowing yourself to be their option
Saturday, February 04, 2006
In The Moment
It's not what you did. It's what you do. Now.
-Michael, in "La Femme Nikita"
-Michael, in "La Femme Nikita"