Sunday, February 7, 2021

"Because we very often make these choices under the influence of others, on whose authority we buy the official story, it is not surprising that lots of people have thought of their conversion [to unbelief] as science-driven, even perhaps in the most dramatic form."

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     Charles Taylor, A secular age (Cambridge, MA:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007), 568-569.
Saturday, February 6, 2021

"even when [people] come to feel [the immanent frame] as obviously supporting closure, this doesn't constitute a valid argument. The sense of 'obvious' closure [against transcendence] is not a perception of rational grounding, but an illusion of . . . 'spin'. . . . [W]hile the norms and practices of the immanent frame may incline to closure, this neither decides the effect that living within the frame in fact will have on us, nor even less does it justify the closed take."

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      Charles Taylor, A secular age (Cambridge, MA:  The Belknap Press of Harvard University, 2007), 555.

"The issue here is not how many positive invocations of the body we hear"

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      "But leaving these aspects and counter-movements aside, official Christianity has gone through what we can call an 'excarnati...

A flat or bemused tolerance, as it were, but no fraternal correction

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"The emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) gives a similar instruction on how to deal with someone who behaves rudely in the gymnasium: ...
Friday, February 5, 2021

"When I am among my seniors I am proof that games are forbidden; when I am among the wild, they think that I am younger than they."

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     An anonymous 10th-century quatrain ("Tan bím eter mo shruithe Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS. 23 P 16 (early 15th cent.), p. 90 |...

"God be with me"

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 N 10 (16th cent.), p. 19 | ISOS 16 From here may they all protect me against the fog-surrounded demons, t...

"Let us adore the Lord, maker of wondrous works, great bright Heaven with its angels, the white-waved sea on earth."

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Adram in Coimdid      cusnaib aicdib amraib, nem gelmár co n-ainglib,      ler tonnbán for talmain.      Anonymus (9th century), "Adram...