Tag: Process_To_Revise
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Voices Of Apocalypse
We thought once Law was killed we’d loafon lawns composing tight haiku. Instead we’re shownas were-hyenas tearing our own breathing youngas God stares down, repenting of His workso bathed in baby blood. His sabbaths stacked in locked backroomsnow tumble down from heaven’s shelvesand clatter galaxies about. In fact,A third of golden stars go black,A third…
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Back Mountain Road
Somewhere between Snowshoe Mountain and Cass Railroad in the West Virginia mountains is a two lane paved road you’ll miss unless you know what you’re looking for. “Back Mountain Road” winds for miles along the side of the ridge, looking down on red barns and gold hayricks. I drove it one August day looking…
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Gabriel’s Inhalation
Yoga class this evening. This makes my Christian people nervous. No, I don’t believe that some crazed Hindu god owns the lotus pose, any more than I believe Darwin owns the bones of the brachiosaur. In the end, most Christians in the pew are actually among those who, had they lived in Corinth, would have…
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Athens, Jerusalem, and Mecca
There was an Aristotelian thread and a Platonist thread in Christian thought from early on. Aristotle himself was lost to the West for a while — not because of some mythical “stranglehold” the church had on larger society, but because of the cultural disaster called the fall of Rome, which took centuries to recover from.…
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Challenge the Premise
If you answer the question, you endorse the premise. The truth is, every question, in every conversation, places the two in the space the questioner has decided is important. There is no logical or moral compulsion to buy that prior decision. Often, to do so wastes time. Jesus seldom answered the question. His reluctance to…
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Our genes are selfish, but we can decide whether to evolve or not
The Chronicle: 11/17/2006: The Social Responsibility in Teaching Sociobiology The logic in this discussion is so bad as to be maddening. If the gene is selfish, and there is no ethic other than what “emerges” from our biological selves, how can anybody else tell me what I OUGHT to do? Why should I not kill…