tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20523109.post5238571499719084329..comments2023-05-13T09:26:00.280-04:00Comments on Byzantine Ramblings: Michael Novak Examines Evil and the AtheismThe Byzantine Ramblerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04945910148988040295noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20523109.post-84584710610559309462008-08-05T12:27:00.000-04:002008-08-05T12:27:00.000-04:00Dear Samuel:"The term 'reality based'" is itself a...Dear Samuel:<BR/><BR/>"The term 'reality based'" is itself a pejorative term. The concept of reality has no single agreed definition. <BR/><BR/>As to your not being a true atheist, this is not mind reading. It’s an observation about your intelligence. You are clearly too intelligent to not believe in God.<BR/><BR/>The RamblerThe Byzantine Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04945910148988040295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20523109.post-57122497965589370142008-08-05T12:07:00.000-04:002008-08-05T12:07:00.000-04:00Solzhenitsyn also talked a lot about the importanc...Solzhenitsyn also talked a lot about the importance of faith in defining the West. To him, a lot of faith went hand-in-hand with a loss of courage, which he saw as the first step towards the decline and fall of a civilization.<BR/><BR/>The biggest threat to the West is not radical Islam or Chinese hegemony, but rather the growing self-loathing in which it simply decides there is nothing worth earlcappshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13751508333538067979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20523109.post-84091391281675967542008-07-30T02:00:00.000-04:002008-07-30T02:00:00.000-04:00Non magical thinking is shortsighted? I perfer the...Non magical thinking is shortsighted? I perfer the term "reality based".<BR/><BR/>As for "not being an atheist at heart... nice that you can read my mind.Samuel Skinnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01587994908818534357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20523109.post-16578247415441818982008-07-29T19:39:00.000-04:002008-07-29T19:39:00.000-04:00Father, ths isery off-topic...but, each time I've ...Father, ths isery off-topic...but, each time I've tried to respond to your e-mail to me, it has bounced back. I will keep trying. :-)<BR/><BR/>The long and short of it, though, was: Oh my goodness, I didn't realize you were that far away, and I wouldn't dream of asking you to make the trip to W-S! Mea culpa!<BR/><BR/>God bless,<BR/><BR/>Dianedianonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11535007125972445811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20523109.post-59577310383810279572008-07-29T17:14:00.000-04:002008-07-29T17:14:00.000-04:00Interesting comment. Unfortunately, it is short-si...Interesting comment. Unfortunately, it is short-sighted. But, I suspect you are not really an atheist at heart.The Byzantine Ramblerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04945910148988040295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20523109.post-14442398755687682182008-07-29T16:26:00.000-04:002008-07-29T16:26:00.000-04:00Samuel SkinnerThe answer is yes. Our desires have ...Samuel Skinner<BR/>The answer is yes. Our desires have no bearing on what is true or not.<BR/><BR/>As for bleaker... not really. Suffering is only meaningless if it is pointless. If you suffer for a cause it helps the cause.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com