tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20483025.post2552327175510432657..comments2023-10-28T10:40:36.246-05:00Comments on Without Authority: Mother Theresa and DoubtThomas Adamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16168017369500841150noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20483025.post-48100716448141134412007-09-14T17:48:00.000-05:002007-09-14T17:48:00.000-05:00The Nation had an interesting interview with Richa...The Nation had an interesting interview with Richard Rodriguez in which he argued that Theresa's doubts make her doubly meaningful for Christians today. I think it's still online.Elliothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08144417439505262113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20483025.post-54490166586853456312007-09-01T16:34:00.000-05:002007-09-01T16:34:00.000-05:00Actually, I would not be surprised if some day, Da...Actually, I would not be surprised if some day, Dawkins' executors release letters in which he laments how Reason seems so absent. <BR/><BR/>"I look out into the stars and I see no awe or wonder out there. I look into myself and see no logic or reason or any acceptance of reality, but only a desperate desire to flee to some irrational faith. . . . My reason seems to be going . . . <BR/><BR/>"I debate Christians and inside something says to me, 'Hypocrite! You don't really accept the meaninglessness of the universe at all! Inside yourself you still hug the pathetic theistic fallacy that you matter!' . . . <BR/><BR/>"Oh, it is agony, this trying to live up to the highest atheist confession, when everything in my genes drags me down to degraded superstition . . . " etc., etc.CPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06803551934971285722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20483025.post-39513477694332081332007-08-28T07:07:00.000-05:002007-08-28T07:07:00.000-05:00If someone's determined to be a Prat there's no he...If someone's determined to be a Prat there's no helping them. Jacques Ellul in 'Hope in the Time of Abandonment' insists that God has indeed abandoned Man to his own devices but this in no way detracts from him having faith, but it's hard not to feel that God has indeed left us to choose our own delusions has a result of our abandonment of Him, when the Son of Man returns shall he find faith? Ignoring those beourgoise apologists is real faith possible and consistent with material excess? Is God not effectively marketed as the equivalent of a Psychologists' pep pill with all the depressing babble concerning spirituality when isn't it obvious that it is only those who are truly conscious of the absence of God that will seek Him the more earnestly through the obedience of faith.<BR/> 'Even if Peter sinks, that does not mean that Jesus Christ does. And as long as Jesus does not sink, Peter cannot go under entirely either' (Barth - Bremen Sermon)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com