Truth (with a capital "T") is the elephant, and humanity the blind touching, sniffing, tasting, listening to this big "T" and of course we all rhapsodize a different tale (or tail?), yet in the end the big "T" is still the big "T" and all our various tales describe a tiny bit of that reality, the elephant.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Brevity
Science finds answers. Philosophy finds questions. Religion puzzles over it all.
Sorry to quibble, but though in the best case you are right, it seems to me that more and more religion now is refusing to allow for puzzling, denies wonder and not-knowing, for the sake of offering specious and spurious certainties in frightening times.
Bravo!
ReplyDeleteSorry to quibble, but though in the best case you are right, it seems to me that more and more religion now is refusing to allow for puzzling, denies wonder and not-knowing, for the sake of offering specious and spurious certainties in frightening times.
ReplyDeleteAnti-religion does the same, of course.