It is one thing to be clever and another to be wise.
one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall__n fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. __t that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief.
36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction
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one evangelical scientist who had felt his doubts falling away from him when he was hiking in the mountains and came upon a frozen waterfall__n fact a trinity of a frozen waterfall, with three parts to it. __t that moment, I felt my resistance leave me. And it was a great sense of relief.
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No validation of our rationality - of our very sanity - can be accomplished using our rationality itself. How can a person operating within a system of beliefs, including beliefs about beliefs, get outside that system to determine whether it is rational? If your entire system becomes infected with madness, including the very rules by which you reason, then how can you ever reason your way out of your madness?
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Christians, indeed, have a special obligation not to forget how great and how inextinguishable the human proclivity for violence is, or how many victims it has claimed, for they worship a God who does not merely take the part of those victims, but who was himself one of them, murdered by the combined authority and moral prudence of the political, religious, and legal powers of human society.