As I noted in my book, “To See a World in a Grain of Sand”, the term ‘original sin’ points to a fundamental truth about the human condition, but it seems to miss the target a bit. Our knowledge of human nature and of the physical world has expanded greatly in recent years and has … [Read more…]
I know just enough about history and economics to be dangerous and what I know leads me to the dangerous thought that a sufficiently large political entity with a centralized government will tend strongly to evolve into an empire, no matter its pretences to being a republic. It may have initial periods of freedom, but … [Read more…]
Modern empirical knowledge, the social sciences as well as physics and biology, point towards a world of development and not one of stable entities. Nor do we have any reason to believe in short-cuts that bring a more primitive entity to an advanced state such as that in which a hairless ape is capable of … [Read more…]
This article states the obvious truth about our moral confusion and makes the valid distinction between ends and means. Americans have always been confused about this distinction, often because of the domination of practical reasoning in the American mind. As I point out in my book “To See a World in a Grain of Sand: … [Read more…]
In my blog entry on the debate between Einstein and Bohr on the meaning of reality, I spoke of relationships being primary. It is relationships which bring substance into being, as Bohr was arguing in an obscure way. In a seemingly separate line of arguments in my book “To See a World in a Grain … [Read more…]
Mostly, we owe everything to our Creator, but there seems to be a general human desire to elaborate on even the most obvious truths. Consequently, I am providing a pdf file justice.pdf for the amusement of anyone who might care. The file can be downloaded or read in place using something like Adobe Reader.
God is transcendent and immanent. That is, He lives as a necessary being, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, His own Act-of-being, but He also exists in each and every thing, each and every second of time, each and every volume of space. Not even the emptiest space of our universe could not continue to … [Read more…]
God freely chose to create this particular world, objectifying it by way of manifesting certain of His thoughts as a particular set of abstract truths (mathematical and metaphysical) which underly this world and from which this particular world is shaped. And He brought those truths into creaturely being by way of decisions which were freely … [Read more…]
If we Christians do not view paganism rightly, to see the truths it contains in its higher forms and to see why it fails to ascend to the true God, we will fail to understand ourselves, fail to understand God in His transcendance and immanance, and also fail to see the re-paganization of the world … [Read more…]