This speech from the brilliant and deeply good Francis Collins is an encyclopedia of things that need to be said right now if we’re going to remain a decent nation. https://t.co/PQqS5arAth via @YouTube
A lot of people think "nothing matters" because nothing they are doing matters. Like, yeah…not much would change if you stopped smoking weed and playing video games for a day, but that doesn't mean there is no difference between suffering and happiness, or freedom and slavery.
Why is it that such a lot of things get on your nerves, and are always disturbing your peace of mind? Because you've never really died to Self, never really weaned yourself away from earthly things.
The shackles of moral perfection. Both utilitarianism and rationalism, embraced fully, create servants. The nonmoral parts of life make us who we are https://t.co/gPGUG6u57f
So this came out in the @nytimes this weekend.
The historical Christian positions on social issues do not fit into contemporary political alignments. It's a passage from the new Jonah book found here: https://t.co/Ll9a3pOG5y
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"The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day."
#CSLewis
"God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross. He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is the way in which he is with us & helps us. Christ helps us, not by virtue of his omnipotence, but by virtue of his weakness and suffering. https://t.co/Y4KSoDIQb6
Arguing that abortion, when banned by law, "happens anyway" and could be better regulated—made "safe"—if legalized, of course, could be said of any crime: murder, burglary, and incest, though banned by law, "happen anyway." Should they too be legalized?