Re: Merry Christmas everyone!

On 27/12/2024 11:43 pm, LIT wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2KSYEtMeyA

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Don't mention Christmas to scholars.  They're known for getting into the
weeds...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owxgIG56Nu8

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https://youtu.be/dRPvWCiSvjs?t=6060

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Catholic?  They've had many years to perfect torture :)

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https://www.ccel.org/ccel/c/chesterton/orthodoxy/cache/orthodoxy.pdf

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Exactly

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:)
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How about one more:
https://www.fisheaters.com/srpdf/The-Autobiogrphy-Of-G-K-Chesterton.pdf

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"If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite
happiness
 in skinning a cat, [...]"
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Frighteningly I can imagine G. K. Chesterton skinning a cat (atheists
for
sure).

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Well, what Chesterton is getting at is how man
confronts the presence of evil in the world,
and how that fits in with the existence of God.

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For Einstein the problem of God was "too vast for our limited minds"
yet every preacher will confidently tell one what God is and wants.

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„If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
(G.K. Chesterton)
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:)

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Were you born with belief, or was it acquired?  If the latter then it's
optional.

 
„When men choose not to believe in God, they do
not thereafter believe in nothing, they then
become capable of believing in anything.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Seeing belief for what it is ends, not one, but all.

The locals will be getting restless so enough Christmas from me ...