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Posted on 04/26/2012 9:43:54 PM PDT by Steelfish
But the best of all is to let him read no science but to give him a grand general idea that he knows it all and that everything he happens to have picked up in casual talk and reading is "the results of modern investigation'. Do remember you are there to fuddle him. From the way some of you young fiends talk, anyone would suppose it was our job to teach!
--from the Screwtape Letters, intercepted from the infernal postal service by CS Lewis
Rationalize themselves there yes...but honest thought has a tendency to validate the existence of a transcendent self existent moral God if carried all the way through to the logical end.
LOL! Well said!
Extending it further, the only religions I see that do not have inherent contradictions are Christianity and Zoroastrianism. Out of this Catholicism is the most logical to my mind.
there are also simple believing Catholics and to them, Catholicism is the most emotionally bringing them closer to God -- God is God of emotion, logic etc. etc.
Well said.
I sometimes think,or rather feel,that I was tricked and now that carnal mind and it's thinking seem to wander endlessly about looking for a way out.To be carnally minded is indeed death.
He must increase and I must decrease.
Most of the ones I know will not make it through the brick wall they’ve carefully erected.
I guess I’m a simpleton.
I can sit and watch a colony of ants carrying on their daily business and see God’s hand at work.
I just don’t have enough faith to be an atheist.
:)
LOL
Tell it to Sir Issac Newton. Probably the greatest scientist who ever lived who in fact spent more time studying and commenting on the Bible (over a million words of commentary) than on scientific research.
Faith is EVIDENCE of things unseen.
Analytical thinking provides that evidence.
Yep, the scientific terms are killin' me.
Can't wait to see the definition of "gut instinct" and how it is: (1) equated with "faith" and "belief", and (2) how it is separated out and 100% isolated so it only can be studied.
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