Quotes

"Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."


C.S. Lewis

"The fingers of your thoughts are molding your face ceaselessly."


Charles Reznikoff

"Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere."


G.K. Chesterton

"Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason."


Francis Quarles

"Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil."


C.S. Lewis
God delusions cloud a world of wonders
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Monday, 04 May 2009

We must be prepared to answer these frequent questions, as asked by Michael Coulter. Do Christians want "to throw away science", and "kill in the name of life" (probably referring to capital punishment)? Is it all just superstition? Religion: "its words..so rarely match its actions"? Is there nothing good from Christianity, but "demonstrable benefits of secular thought"? Don't miss Michael's confession at the end as to where his faith stands.

God delusions cloud a world of wonders

Michael Coulter, The Age, May 3, 2009

What I see is a world slowly tearing itself apart for the sake of one faith or another. A world where an extreme faction of Islam wishes to put me and mine to the sword for my unbelief, and to shackle half the world for the crime of being born female. A world where an extreme faction of Christianity wants to throw away science for the sake of millenniums-old superstitions, and is prepared to kill in the name of life. A world where an extreme faction of Hinduism wishes to religiously purify India. A world where people are unashamedly trying to fulfil the biblical conditions for Armageddon.

Read full article at The Age

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