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Enduring expressions available to all.
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[82.3]
faith, Belief, passion
I have always believed in
Art/Architecture.
The
faith that design and construction of
Sacred
Art and Architecture
Will lead me to beauty
After
a lifetime of Passion
I
ask
What
truly is creativity?
Who
decides beauty?
My quest has taken me to the physical, meta-physical,
illus ional
My most important discovery: The creative mysteries are
found in
THE INNER SPLENDOR
Where
+ Beauty + Delight + Wonder +
Are revealed in
The Silence of Sacred Time
The Solitude of Sacred Space
Where:
Past Future are made PRESENT
We then hear the
Clean Echoes
From the edge of time
+…Come! to me! …
I Am the hidden Manna that you search! …+
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[82.4] Belief (Pullman)
"We still need joy and delight, the promise of connection
with something beyond ourselves. Perhaps children's literature is the
last forum left for such a project”
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[82.5] Religion(Pullman)
‘Some of the
articles and talks I've written are to do with the subject of religion, which
I think is a very interesting one. The religious impulse – which includes
the sense of awe and mystery we feel when we look at the universe, the
urge to find a meaning and a purpose in our lives, our sense of moral
kinship with other human beings – is part of being human, and I value it.
I'd be a damn fool not to. But organised religion is quite another thing.
The trouble is that all too often in human history, churches and
priesthoods have set themselves up to rule people's lives in the name of
some invisible god (and they're all invisible, because they don't exist)
– and done terrible damage. In the name of their god, they have burned,
hanged, tortured, maimed, robbed, violated, and enslaved millions of
their fellow-creatures, and done so with the happy conviction that they
were doing the will of God, and they would go to Heaven for it. That is
the religion I hate, and I'm happy to be known as its enemy.
From time to time I have a new thought on the subject.
When I come up with something worth writing down, I'll put it here.’
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[82.6] CS Lewis
Alice In Wonderland: Lewis believed that we could work
our faith out by living and meeting life’s daily challenges.
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[82.7] Tokien
Tokien believed that the Church had all the answers vs. Lewis wrestled with
the big questions what is good and evil its all settled: what is good? Is
there a God? How do we approach God?
Elsewhere- we are going somewhere else: Dislike of women, black skin
people who smell of garlic, those who commit mortal sin and so on.
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[82.8] hope
‘Religion is at its best when in the midst love of the poor is active in the needy where compassion and
love is most needed.’
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[82.9] Notes From: Phillip Pullman
I am always fascinated by religion and by science
because each is an explanation of the world. Religion gives one kind of
answer and science gives another kind of answer.
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I am a
religious man these question have obsessed me all my life. An impulse towards
all. A sense of mystery. Religious impulse: our feelings about good and
evil as the ultimate mystery.
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It is not about the religious impulse itself. Not about
religion itself. Not about God himself. But, what happens when religion
gains political power?
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Religion is at its best and its purest at it most when
it is with the poor, the hungry, the oppressed (as preached by Jesus and
St. Paul) at its finest. That is when religion does its best work. And
shows are glory.
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Religion is at it worst when it gets a hold of power.
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When it begins to issue orders to an army to go and to
kill. When it interferes with every detail of our lives: how to dress,
what to eat decides who shall live and who shall die, what to read, what
to say what and when, that is when it goes bad.
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Religion must speak truth to power.
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[82.10] Science and religion
Some of the homilies and talks I've preached are to do
with the subject of religion, which I think is a very interesting one.
The religious impulse – which includes the sense of awe
and mystery we feel when we look at the universe, the urge to find a
meaning and a purpose in our lives, our sense of moral kinship with other
human beings – is part of being human, and I value it.
‘ I'd be a damn fool not to. But organized religion is
quite another thing. The trouble is that all too often in human history,
churches and priesthoods have set themselves up to rule people's lives in
the name of the invisible God (and they're all invisible- whether they
exist or do not exist) – and done terrible damage.’
‘ In the name of God, humankind have burned, hanged,
tortured, maimed, robbed, violated, and enslaved millions of their
fellow-creatures, and done so with the happy conviction that they were
doing the will of God, and they would go to Heaven for it.’
‘ That is the religion I an unhappy with, and I'm happy
to be known as its enemy. From time to time I have a new thought on the
subject.’
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[82.11] Science and religion [Dan Brown: Angels
& Demons]
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The camerlengo speaks to the
BBC on the steps of the Vatican: ‘To those of science I say: the debate
of the existence of a God has been in the minds of humankind
(theologians, scientists, believers and non-believers) for a long time
Science may indeed win the arguments of the natural over the
supernatural- the divine- the invisible- the sacred and holy.
The miracles that we now see
and experience flow from advancements in medicine, technology, space,
biology, and genetics. The research within these fields of study brings
the “miracles”. The promise that science will bring to all of humankind
the answers to human life. Science has promised to redeem humankind.
Science has emerged as the
rituals of the religion of the new God. To the scientist and the emerging
disciples God has become obsolete.
And, this has cost us deeply.
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[82.12] study notes: humanity: The Camerlengo
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[82.12] Science and religion: the
debate
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Can science and religion
support the concept of One God? ( St. Augustine’s position)
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According to the Big Bang theory, the universe emerged from an extremely
dense and hot state (singularity).
Space itself has been expanding ever
since, carrying galaxies with it.
The exact time of Creation: Time
0
Note:
As
mathematics approaches TIME-O the math distengrates: everything becomes
meaningless.
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SINGULARITY: God, Buddha, The Force,
Yahweh: The Singularity? Does this mean that religion and science agree
that God is “pure energy” The father of the Universe? Attributes:
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