Posted on 05/15/2019 9:07:31 AM PDT by Salman
I grew up in Australia, in a loving, secular home, and arrived at Sydney University as a critic of “religion.” I didn’t need faith to ground my identity or my values. I knew from the age of eight that I wanted to study history at Cambridge and become a historian.
After Cambridge, I was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Oxford. There, I attended three guest lectures by world-class philosopher and atheist public intellectual, Peter Singer. Singer recognised that philosophy faces a vexing problem in relation to the issue of human worth. The natural world yields no egalitarian picture of human capacities. What about the child whose disabilities or illness compromises her abilities to reason? Yet, without reference to some set of capacities as the basis of human worth, the intrinsic value of all human beings becomes an ungrounded assertion; a premise which needs to be agreed upon before any conversation can take place.
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Also quite similar to my own journey, though I was never anywhere as prestigious as Oxford.
I became pro-life after being shown some ultra-sounds by a nurse of my acquaintance. But I remained an atheist for several years after that.
She sort of skimmed along the surface.
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very interesting. thanks for posting.
You are being prepared for something beyond your wildest imagination.
She filled that empty space inside her shaped like God, now she is whole.Amen
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Richard Dawkins made fun of Christians’ ignorance of the Bible, but when he was asked if he could state the full title of Darwin’s Origin of the Species he claimed he could but failed:
https://youtu.be/Hv2U2Xp2Nu8?t=28
AND, if you listen closely, he even invokes God while struggling to recall.
‘You are being prepared for something beyond your wildest imagination.’
such as...?
Heaven!
With little samples here below.
“All the Way to heaven is heaven, because Christ said, “I am the Way.” - St. Catherine of Siena
‘Heaven!’
which is...?
To be totally in the presence of God
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