Posted on 1 September 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
From Fr. John Augustine Zahm, c.s.c’s 1896 Evolution and Dogma, a passage that gave pause to me:
To attempt to cope with the modern spirit of error by means of antiquated and discarded weapons of offense and defense, were as foolish as to pit a Roman trireme or a medieval galley against a modern steel cruiser [...]
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Posted on 11 July 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
I don’t read Sullivan often (enough); I should. I don’t always agree with the man, but I certainly respect him, if not all of the choices that he’s made in his personal life. Some of his actions not-with-standing (We all sin, of course; I, for sure, am no exception to this.), he, I believe, truly [...]
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Posted on 12 March 2008 by Nathan P. Origer
Salon.com’s Charly Wilder has an exceptional interview with former New York Times foreign correspondent Chris Hedges about the latter’s book I Don’t Believe in Atheists here. My and X-Cathedra’s debate with Samuel Skinner over the Church, history, science, and atheism continuing here, I believe my discovering this interview to be undeniably apropos.
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