RE: Heaven seems awful 2 me-"Theist laughs at loudly & with great cruelty"
May 11, 2016 at 4:41 pm
(May 11, 2016 at 4:06 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Missing here is the idea that different people will have various and different responses to the Divine. Ironically anti-religious bigotry cannot tolerate dissent from their own rejection of the Divine.
You might have a point if these "different responses to the Divine" weren't equally as intolerant of each other. Liberal Christians and fundamentalists have historically spent as much energy attacking each other as they have attacking the non-believers.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
