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- One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in…
- The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw…
- Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed, and so, too,…
- ...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to God. ...the directions…
- It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide…
- Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence - whereas traditional cultures…
- The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case,…
- You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
- At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals,…
- The Chinese began with the assumption that the group is the fundamental unit of reality. Individuals? Sure, we can factor them out from their groups,…
- When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments to winnow true…
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