Well, it's been a hell of a ride, laying rubber all over the road for the past decade. But it's time to call it a day and park the Rogue in the garage. Effective today, I am shutting down my blog to focus my attention on other endeavours. My thanks to the more than 2.7 million people who regularly joined me on these sojourns through news stories over the years that dealt with the places with issues of religion and faith intersecting with public affairs. May God bless you with a continuing desire to learn about and help disseminate the issues of faith throughout the public square. Happy trails in your continuing travels! Fr. Tim Moyle, p.p. Diocese of Pembroke
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
Both Science and Religion view mysteries as central to their raison d'etre.
ReplyDeleteThe most exciting moment in science is not the Archimedian shout of Eureaka but the quizical "that's strange"; meaning new fodder for exploration and explanation.
In Religion it's more like the Philip Henslowe character in Tom Stoppard's Shakespeare in Love. When faced with events he can't understand, shrugs his shoulders and says "It's a mystery".
A mystery is not a sop for solace but a irritant for inquiry.
God was used to explain the weather, the crops, the trembling of the earth, sickness and health etc...
ReplyDeleteWe now have meteorology, agronomy, geology, medicine etc...and few civilized people seriously suggest that a God or Satan is still needed to explain any of these things.
God's role has been downsized - but theists still offer up their God to fill in the cracks about what we still don't know...things like - Where do we come from? or Where do we go when we finish this life? That is pretty much it for the BIG questions still left unanswered.
The existence of god is essentially reduced to an argument from ignorance (you can substitute "awe" for "ignorance", but the effect is pretty much the same).
This article is just an elaborate appeal to ignorance. Yawn.
Cheers...Martin