Excellent essay. Science and truth are on our side and we must never shy away from expressing our pro-life convictions. Christopher Hitchens and the late, great civil libertarian Nat Hentoff were pro-life atheists who used science to form their beliefs.
As for religion forming the basis for so much of our culture, the historian Tom Holland wrote an outstanding book, "Dominion," exploring this subject. An atheist, Holland now finds himself attending church services weekly, according to an interview I read last year. He is stepping on the same path CS Lewis and Malcolm Muggeridge took before him.
Dostoevsky wrote that "without God, all is permissible." He is absolutely correct and I am afraid that we will be soon living through the ramifications as our society collapses (by design, imo) in front of our eyes.
"Dominion" is outstanding indeed. Today I started reading Carl Trueman's "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self", which I have been looking forward to for some time (Paul Kingsnorth mentioned it here: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-abolition-of-man-and-woman).
I am not on Twitter. Sometimes I take a peek at what certain people have tweeted, and I am quite happy that I always have to do two extra clicks (one to agree to log in, one to get rid of the log-in window). It is like a reminder that this is not good for me.
"You're a finely and well-organized clump of cells" is one rebuttal. That's one of the things that makes you different from water or methane or granite.
Excellent essay. Science and truth are on our side and we must never shy away from expressing our pro-life convictions. Christopher Hitchens and the late, great civil libertarian Nat Hentoff were pro-life atheists who used science to form their beliefs.
As for religion forming the basis for so much of our culture, the historian Tom Holland wrote an outstanding book, "Dominion," exploring this subject. An atheist, Holland now finds himself attending church services weekly, according to an interview I read last year. He is stepping on the same path CS Lewis and Malcolm Muggeridge took before him.
Dostoevsky wrote that "without God, all is permissible." He is absolutely correct and I am afraid that we will be soon living through the ramifications as our society collapses (by design, imo) in front of our eyes.
"Dominion" is outstanding indeed. Today I started reading Carl Trueman's "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self", which I have been looking forward to for some time (Paul Kingsnorth mentioned it here: https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/the-abolition-of-man-and-woman).
Thanks, I added that book to my list.
What a strange time we inhabit.
I am not on Twitter. Sometimes I take a peek at what certain people have tweeted, and I am quite happy that I always have to do two extra clicks (one to agree to log in, one to get rid of the log-in window). It is like a reminder that this is not good for me.
"You're a finely and well-organized clump of cells" is one rebuttal. That's one of the things that makes you different from water or methane or granite.