Religion/Philosophy
If the existence of God were self-evident, no one would have to be convinced of it.
The question is: Why should God exist--not Why shouldn't He exist. The burden of proof does not lie with the nonbeliever.
God? God is the cabbage butterfly that I saw in the pumpkin patch the other day while floating in the pool.
Truth cannot be grasped by praying, but neither can it be grasped through repudiation of prayer. What we all desire is somewhere in the middle; both poles must be denied, both embraced--at the same time.
And yet it is paradox that sustains us, paradox that yields--often--all the meaning that is to be found.
All devolves into gradations of truth. Answers are necessarily impossible. We can know exactly nothing.
The desire to convert others usually indicates the presence of doubt. There is safety in numbers.
Do not believe easily--but do not doubt capriciously either.
Morality need have nothing whatsoever to do with religion. Those who insist that it does do not understand either.
Ethical people do not have easier lives; they have harder lives--and for good reason.
One cannot be moral by default--but one can be immoral.
It is we who create Hell--and then condemn ourselves to live there. As long as human beings continue acting as they are inclined--which we can be reasonably certain will be for some time--no Christian Devil is necessary. He is really quite superfluous.
We are all aliens in this world; we all belong. The truth lies somewhere in between. Where else?
Puppies, infants, newborns of all varieties, exist (for one thing, at least) in order to point out to us our final unworthiness of the world into which they have come.
The more one confines oneself to the material world of physical reality, the more one finds there is to believe in.
New Age: New Middle Ages.
To the contrary; it is much easier to doubt than to believe.
