Category: Religion Philosophy
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Søren Kierkegaard – A prayer…
Father in heaven! Place us not against You and aside to our sins, but place us aside You, opposite to our sins, so that each time Your thought awakens us, instead of awakening our fallacy, it will awaken Your grace, instead of emphasizing the distance which separates us, it will emphasize the proximity of Your…
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Treacherousness
We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation. ~Francois De La Rochefoucauld Next time someone ill-treats you, think twice before getting angry. Bad behaviour could be a result of weakness, rather than pure evil. Double check and see things from another perspective. Evil is most of the time synonym with powerlessness or a deep…
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Transubstantiation, atoms, scientism…
Non-believers are baffled by Christians believing they eat the blood and body of Christ during transubstantiation. We can accept it as a metaphor, but not as something “real”. We cannot literally accept that we eat the blood and body of Christ. What are we taking “literally”? We see food and we think it is solid.…
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The Pope, an announcement in Latin, ancient knowledge…
The Pope announced his resignation in Latin. Not just written Latin. He also SPOKE Latin in the meeting with the Cardinals. [source 1=”<a” href=”http://news.yahoo.com/pope-resign-feb-28-says-hes-too-infirm-115602824.html” 2=”target="_blank">Yahoo!” 3=”News</a>” language=”:”][/source] And this is not the first time Latin (an otherwise thought “dead” language) the Popse uses Latin. He recently used Latin to make a Tweet! (see here) Even…
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What truly matters in life! (or why religion kicks ass!)
John and Ann Betar weren’t supposed to get married. Her father had arranged for her to wed another man, but she and John fled Bridgeport and eloped to New York. That was more than 80 years ago. The couple is still happily married, a fact that has led to their naming as the “longest married couple”…
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