Science versus Religion. The story is not always one of an heroic and open-minded scientist clashing with a reactionary and bigoted church.'---Thomas Dixon.
Monday, 19 January 2015
No contest--or not much of one
Member of Society studying science and religion says there's no contest, or not the simple myth of science clashing with religion.
Saturday, 17 January 2015
Aquinas can tell us, but can't think for us
THOMAS Aquinas predicts where certain of our thoughts come from--God.
We hope what goes on inside us tallies with his rulings.
Of course in his day, if you didn't agree with his pronouncements, you kept it to yourself.
Aquinas says the eye sees an object because it is illuminated by the sun. The 'eye' of the intellect sees truth because it is illuminated by God.
How do I know it is God illuminating my thoughts?
I hope it is, but I doubt he is responsible for all my thoughts...
We hope what goes on inside us tallies with his rulings.
Of course in his day, if you didn't agree with his pronouncements, you kept it to yourself.
Aquinas says the eye sees an object because it is illuminated by the sun. The 'eye' of the intellect sees truth because it is illuminated by God.
How do I know it is God illuminating my thoughts?
I hope it is, but I doubt he is responsible for all my thoughts...
Nietzsche on Christianity
I'M pleased to discover Nietzsche wrote a book on Christianity--Dawn of Day. I thought he criticised it only in bursts.
He writes that the French have been the most Christian people on earth. '...not,' he writes, 'in that the faith of the masses has been greater there than elsewhere, but because the most difficult Christian ideals have there turned into men, and have not remained mere images, attempts, half-creations.' As examples, he includes Pascal, the Huguenots, the Trappists.
Nietzsche, to me so far, sounds impressive, if you consider him in his period of history, and his audience being impressed by his often abstract ideas to be taken how you like..
He's most versatile in his meanings, and I would say more a prophet than a philosopher.
No wonder the Nazis were able to twist his values to their advantage: with the help of his sister, of course.
He writes that the French have been the most Christian people on earth. '...not,' he writes, 'in that the faith of the masses has been greater there than elsewhere, but because the most difficult Christian ideals have there turned into men, and have not remained mere images, attempts, half-creations.' As examples, he includes Pascal, the Huguenots, the Trappists.
Nietzsche, to me so far, sounds impressive, if you consider him in his period of history, and his audience being impressed by his often abstract ideas to be taken how you like..
He's most versatile in his meanings, and I would say more a prophet than a philosopher.
No wonder the Nazis were able to twist his values to their advantage: with the help of his sister, of course.
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