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More of Pratchett's inspired madness. This one deals with Death and his young and reluctant new apprentice who accidentally breaks reality and has to set it right.Another mix of humor and good storytelling that makes the Discworld books so beloved. ...more "
“We understand today that the physical universe is bigger and older and operates very differently than how the biblical writers, and all other ancient people, thought. Many Christians stumble over this, thinking they are showing respect for the Bible and obeying God by making the biblical story mesh with modern science, or rejecting modern science entirely in favor of God’s Word. But there is no need to feel embarrassed or unfaithful by acknowledging that ancient writers wrote from an ancient mind-set. When ancient Israelites wrote as they did about the physical world, they were expressing their faith in God in ways that fit their understanding. It shouldn’t get our knickers in a twist to admit that, from a scientific point of view, they were wrong. That doesn’t make their faith or the God behind it all any less genuine.”
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
“The Bible is not a Christian owner’s manual but a story—a diverse story of God and how his people have connected with him over the centuries, in changing circumstances and situations.”
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
“You were having nightmares, Marshal. Serious nightmares.” “I’m in a mental institution on an island in a hurricane,” Teddy said. “Touché,” Cawley said.”
― Shutter Island
― Shutter Island
“the passionate defense of the Bible as a “history book” among the more conservative wings of Christianity, despite intentions, isn’t really an act of submission to God; it is making God submit to us. In its most extreme forms, making God look like us is what the Bible calls idolatry.”
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
― The Bible Tells Me So: Why Defending Scripture Has Made Us Unable to Read It
“A logical fallacy is an invalid connection between a premise and a conclusion, where the conclusion does not necessarily flow from the premise(s) but is argued as if it does.”
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
― The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake
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