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A Profound Job-Like Meditation on Suffering
And probably now illegal to perform in Ireland: I think the secular blogs—and I include mine among them—should call for a boycott of Ireland’s tourism industry until its anti-free speech laws are rescinded. I’m in. 20th century journalist, I.F. Stone: [N]o … Continue reading
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Tagged atheist, blasphemy, Calvinism, Catholicism, censorship, free speech, ireland, Islam, Job, medievalism, suffering
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Balinese Monkey Dance Based on a Story in the Ramayana
Some thoughts related to this here. Background here.
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Tagged art, Buddhism, chant, dance, excorcism, Hinduism, literature, ramayana, religion
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The Universe’s Existence: Is it an Ontological Mystery or Just a Very Complicated Problem?
At the heart of the universe are three staggering paradoxes, and one of them, however absurd and inconceivable, must be true: either the universe made itself; or it has always existed; or some self-made or eternal telos is behind it Theists … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, astronomy, atheism, atheist, Genesis, God, negative theology, physics, Richard Dawkins, robert wright, the ontological mystery
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Caelius Secundus Curio and Laelius Socinus: Two Heroic 16th Century Resisters of John Calvin
The following appears on page 478 of Will Durant’s wonderful history of the Reformation (which you can find at Amazon here): Calvin faced on the left a group of radicals recently arrived in Switzerland from Counter Reformation Italy. Caelius Secundus Curio, … Continue reading
