Soren Kierkegaard Quote
“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christian are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensur that we can continue to be good Christian with out the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.”
Soren Kierkegaard, Provocation: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard
Ken Auletta On NPR
Here is a great interview I heard on NPR… http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120009107
Media critic Ken Auletta tracks the development of Google from a search engine created in a garage in 1998 to the provider of all things Internet in his new book Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.
Auletta tells Terry Gross that although the company trumpets free access to information, it is notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to its own formula for success….
read the rest here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120009107
Importance
Why, one may ask, am I interested in philosophy and religion? How did I come to be interested in it? In this post, I will give a brief response to each of these questions.
First, how did I come to be interested in philosophy and religion? About 3 or 4 years ago I met a friend who turned out being an atheist. Having never thought of other religions or non-religions, he tore my faith apart. I was devastated, for I had been a Christian all my life. And, so, I came to being a closet agnostic. Never telling anyone about my doubt, it welled up inside of me, and I decided it needed to be confronted. Soon after I made that decision, Francis Collins came into town for a lecture at UC Berkeley. My sister, mother and I attended the lecture and I was instantly caught up in the subject. I began to read books on the subject, starting with none other than C.S. Lewis’ ‘Mere Christianity’. And, so, I slowly but surely became addicted to the topic.
As for why I am interested…. I think that the topic interests me because there is no other topic which is more important. Humans can live without technology, science, or any other field. But it seems that we cannot live without a religion of some sort. So the topic of immense importance to me, personally, and to society. This is why I am in awe of the subject.
