Apologetics
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These days I read a new book, a kind of Christian postmodernist mysticism. The issue is given by the problematic dichotomy: faith or reason? Faith beyond reason? Faith against reason? Faith is irrational, illogical and absurd? Religion is irrational! New atheists trumpet the claim loudly, so much so that it’s become a sort of conventional
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Remembering Norway’s victims, I strongly recommend Chris Hedges’ article on TruthDig.com. (26 July, 2011) Fundamentalism Kills The gravest threat we face from terrorism, as the killings in Norway by Anders Behring Breivik underscore, comes not from the Islamic world but the radical Christian right and the secular fundamentalists who propagate the bigoted, hateful caricatures of observant Muslims and
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“At the gates of the Coliseum and the concentration camp, we have no choice but to abandon hope that civilization is, in itself, a guarantor of moral progress.” Ronald Wright, istoric “Credeam că Anglia e civilizată. Dar e bolnavă.” Declaraţia îi aparţine Monikăi Konczyk, femeia a cărei poză, sărind de la etajul unei clădiri în
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“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.” (Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Este printre români
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