Posts tagged: God
Weinig rechtsgeleerdheid
In de Renaissance verzuchtte een geleerde dat er ‘veel Theologie en Medicijnen’ is, maar ‘slechts weinig Rechtsgeleerdheid’. De schalen van de weegschaal zijn halve cirkels (de illustratie is een beetje vertekend; ze behoren halve cirkels te zijn). Zij vormen dus samen een hele cirkel. Het ...
Free Tibet
‘A group of Tibetans were arrested in western China after public calls for the return of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama’, the BBC Internet reports on 3 August 2007. ‘The incident took place on 1 August at a festival in Litang town in western Sichuan’, Radio Free Asia and the ...
Al-Queda is Al-Guida
We’re probably condemned as terrorists right now. But wait a minute. Let’s analyze the situation first. Then condemn us, if you must. You see, the 9/11 attacks have unleashed international unrest. It is called a war, but it’s not. It’s not a war between nations. It’s not a civil war. It’s not a ...
The Race for the People
It’s not the ‘Race for the Presidency’! It’s the race for the people. We see and hear 8 Democrat candidates vying for the presidency. They are all trying to sell themselves on the President Market. Stop it! We need facts. Basically, they are all the same, except for one: Kucinich. He wants peace. ...
There is only one church: Truth
And nobody, no religion or church has a privilege to Truth. The reassertion by Pope Benedict XVI of the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church is a grave mistake. According to the BBC the Pope has approved a document saying that Orthodox churches were defective and that other Christian ...
The soul is back!
After the collapse of communism the world-soul (expressed as political idealism) WITHDREW. Capitalism has no soul. It is brutal materialism. Money, money, money. And if not kept in check by idealism, it will turn on itself and disintegrate. Communism was equally brutal materialism, but it was kept ...
DEVELOPMENT AID, YES. BUT WHAT KIND?
Poor nations 'need a science boost' to break the poverty trap and catch up, the UN recently said. Its trade and development agency UNCTAD used its annual report on Least Developed Countries to look at the role of science, technology and innovation. These are not luxuries, but necessities. This all ...
GODSPEED, TONY BLAIR
He deserves the benefit of the doubt. A lot of doubt, we may add. The war in Iraq may some day in hindsight prove to have served some useful purpose. We cannot see it now. To make the people free is a good thing. But the means to this end – war – can only be justified as a very very last resort. ...
LA $660 million Church settlement disproportional
The victims cried in timely fashion, the camera’s rolling. One of them claimed she has lost 19 jobs and had 3 divorces because of the sexual abuse at the hands of a priest. We are in no way defending the priests. What they did is wrong. Can we be clear on that? We know that there will be a crowd ...
Rechtspraak in naam van god of in naam van het geweten
Men hoort de secularisten al schreeuwen: ‘Pas op voor theocratie! De rechter moet niet recht spreken in naam van God!’ O nee? Wat doet de rechter nu dan? Hij spreekt nu recht ‘in naam der Koningin’. Dat is nog slechter. Immers, de Koningin is een mens en dus feilbaar. Dan dus tochMen hoort de ...
Light is the veil of god
The broad conclusion is, then, that God is beyond light. There is a Sun beyond the sun, in other words. But who is to say that the Biblical text could not mean that God is both the light and that which is beyond the light? In other words, maybe the Creator and the created are one? Viewed thus, God ...
Nature is to Man as Man is to God
What has all this got to do with God and Man? We don’t know how this ratio can be applied to the relationship between God and Man, but perhaps the wonder at our sense of beauty triggered by it gave somebody the idea that Nature, Man and God are proportioned likewise, i.e. that Nature is to Man as ...