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- 3 days ago on Non Sequitur
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3 days ago
on Non Sequitur
On the subject of choice, to quote an esteemed prof of mine (Eastern Orthodox priest), may he rest in peace:
“When it comes to acquiring or increasing faith, simply to want it will ultimately be sufficient. Grace will supply.
No. Correct, that: simply wanting to want will be sufficient.
No. Correct that: simply wanting to want to want will be sufficient …. "
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5 days ago
on Non Sequitur
Yet it remains that critics of Christianity are correct regarding the extent to which proponents of our worldview have much to “apologize” for (in its contemporary sense) and repent about.
“Repentance” is referenced here in its fullest religious sense as distinguished from a criminal expressing (mere) sorriness, regret or remorse in the gambit to be granted a reduced sentence.
It is my faith – again, without proof, as it is my contention that faith as an act of the will has NOTHING whatsoever to do with proofs or substantiation by scientific method – that the answer to “Why didn’t/doesn’t God make everyone a believer?” = to provide providers of just this sort of “service” as conscience goads.
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6 days ago
on Non Sequitur
“The Devil’s Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce … Bierce’s witty definitions were imitated and plagiarized for years before he gathered them into books, first as The Cynic’s Word Book in 1906 and then in a more complete version as The Devil’s Dictionary in 1911.”
Cynicism + substantive dialogue = substantive dialogue.
Solve for cynicism.
(See. Anyone can play your little game.)
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6 days ago
on Non Sequitur
Your small (very small, and infantile) attempt at gamesmanship is unsolvable until there is an agreement on the essence of one of the terms (religion).
For you, it is an expression of idiocy, which itself is to me revelatory of disqualifying conceptual limitation.
Atheism = The infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one’s own conceptual limitations. (David Bentley Hart, author of Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies, Yale University Press, 2009.)
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6 days ago
on Non Sequitur
All good.
You started your list with the Red Cross.
Let’s Google to Wiki and read of its origin:
“Until the middle of the nineteenth century, there were no organized or well-established army nursing systems for casualties, nor safe or protected institutions, to accommodate and treat those who were wounded on the battlefield. A devout Calvinist, the Swiss businessman Jean-Henri Dunant ….
(This in light of the fact that you have marked “motivation” as significant factor in historical action.)
Churches were initial consortium members in what became CARE ….
Religionists and secularists can work together for the good without the latter unnecessarily dismissing the former as grounded in idiocy.
Cheers.
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7 days ago
on Non Sequitur
“The hobby department”
The stellar and edifying efforts of such foundations as World Vision, Catholic Relief Services and International Justice Mission (not to mention the historical establishment of the university system and hospitals) stem from the religious sense.
Our world, ever in need of being made a better place for all, can use more hobbyists.
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8 days ago
on Non Sequitur
Otherly, Dickens, in his 1851 short story, “What Christmas Is As We Grow Older,” makes the case that the holiday is the time to “bear witness” to our parallel lives, our “old aspirations,” “old projects” and “old loves”:
“Welcome, alike what has been, and what never was, and what we hope may be, to your shelter underneath the holly."
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10 days ago
on Non Sequitur
“oppressing human beings before the Enlightenment”
Oh, and how many have been mindlessly victimized, oppressed, enslaved, sexually trafficked, mass murdered, etc., SINCE the Enlightenment?
(Read, read the daily headlines.)
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10 days ago
on Non Sequitur
“everyone worships something”
Dropped mic on that.
Sort of.