Showing posts with label atheistic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label atheistic. Show all posts
Wednesday 15 February 2012

Theist v Atheist

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If you take the apparent question of whether “god” exists or not as an existential question or as an ontological question then then I susp...
Saturday 14 January 2012

At a Quaker Meeting

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A moment of quiet. A collection of my thoughts - a ragbag stuffed with the past: overfull sometimes, memories spilling out of it and spittin...
Monday 21 November 2011

Houses of words

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We build houses out of the words we believe so that we made hide inside them safe from the unknown, safe from the uncomfortable, safe from...
Monday 30 May 2011

Are Prayer and Meditation the same?

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Mostly we are caught in the web of the now, neither looking inwards nor outwards, but only at our everyday, our nexus of survival and coping...
Friday 27 May 2011

More about Penal Substitution

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The doctrinal emphasis on the idea of penal substitution that so typifies Western Christianity may date from about 1100 – 1200 CE, that is ...
Thursday 26 May 2011

Messiahs, canons, penal substitution & the formation of orthodoxies.

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Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of the Gospels, may have lived and died sometime during the period 10 BCE to 20 or 30 CE. It was not until th...
Thursday 19 May 2011

The challenge of polarity

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Polarity has always been a theological challenge to monotheism. In attempting to make the deity universal, that is to be all encompassing...
Saturday 14 May 2011

The Impenetrable Wall

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The unanswerables due to ineffability: Whether god exists or not Whether god is one or many Whether god is permanent, imperma...
Tuesday 12 April 2011

Beware the naming

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Beware the naming of "God" for in that lies much danger and the building of temples. Soon fatwas and schisms, hight priests and s...

Creating monsters

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Listening to the truth within, Observing the wonder without. Unbinding from the shackles of words: Name it God and you create a monster,...