And why have reason and religion drifted apart?

Posted on April 10, 2007
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I think the Church, the institution, has a lot to do with that. Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was a scientist and Christian mystic who was forbidden to publish by the Church for his entire career. A discoverer of Peking Man, the Omega Point and Noosphere, his posthumously-published works did much to relate reason and religion. Catholic dogma and reason don’t seem good companions…

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2 Responses to “And why have reason and religion drifted apart?”

  1. BJ on April 10th, 2007 8:38 pm

    Hi! I thought you and your readers might be interested in some post-Easter news about Pope Benedict XVI…
    The Pope’s car is being auctioned off to raise money for Habitat for Humanity:
    www.buyacarvideos.com/popecar.htm
    The bidding is already more than $200,000! Personally, I think this is a really fun and creative way to raise
    money. The auction goes until April 14th if you and your readers want to check it out.

  2. gfbird on April 11th, 2007 5:59 pm

    Wow, a Ratzinger worn-out Golf, gas-powered instead of diesel.

    What’s in the Vatican carpool? Popemobile on sale? What’s the cost/benefit of selling the 747, etc, and chartering instead? What else? Then they can start liquidating the art and really start serving the poor among us. And open up the library and archives so we can have a ’surge of truth’.

    Next, they need to start putting Windside or some other design wind turbines on the finials, croquets, etc. of their buildings . . . yeah, greening up the Papal City and sell the surplus to Roma. Get those statues of saints down to earth and into the museums and put on the PV’s. Maybe the caretaking nuns can make it happen if the guys can’t visualize.

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