Originally posted by SchliemannHoly mackeral, where have you been? Thanks for dropping by. Sit a spell, my friend. 😉
"What we have here...is a failure to communicate"
You know the movie kirksey.
My passed on quote for the day...
"Men are not finished...but when they are married...they are done"
Mae West
Dave
Miss you Kirk
"My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests." -- George Santayana
How many people will claim to agree with this yet behave in total contradiction to it?
TheSkipper
Ali G interviewing a bishop (from hazy memory):
"so, this God, he can perform miracles? Right?"
"yes, God performs miracles every day"
"so, as a mate of God's you could ask him to make this chair float"
"no"
"so he doesn't perform miracles then?"
"no, he does, but that wouldn't be a miracle. When man starts treating fellow man like his brother, that would be a miracle"
Bishop exits stage left, Ali is lost for a reply.
(Maybe not a theological quote exactly, but I liked it)
If you are a Christian, you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist, you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake. If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth. When I was an atheist, I had to try to persuade myself that most of the human race have always been wrong about the question that mattered to them most; when I became a Christian, I was able to take a more liberal view. But, of course, being a Christian does mean thinking that where Christianity differs from other religions, Christianity is right and they are wrong. As in arithmetic - there is only one right answer to a sum, and all other answers are wrong: but some of the wrong answers are much nearer being right than others.
C. S. Lewis
"Of the seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your toungue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back-- in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you." Frederick Beuechner