RE: Why science and religious fatih need not be in conflict: It's as easy as 1-2-3!
May 10, 2017 at 7:43 am
(May 3, 2017 at 8:59 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(May 3, 2017 at 8:10 am)Harry Nevis Wrote: Didn't Swedenborg describe the aliens living on other planets? Must be them.
Yes, he did, in "Life on Other Earths." It is heavily laden with alchemical symbolism, something the reader should always keep in mind. Nevertheless, I do not consider myself a true Swedenborgian; but rather, a student of his work, which I find fascinating and insightful though not necessarily authoritative. This does not undermine my point that his uncanny predictions and incidents of clairvoyance are documented facts.
This is for instance what Swedenborg "discovered" clairvoyance from "Concerning the earths in our solar system, which are called planets Concerning the earths in our solar system, which are called planets":
It was declared to me by the angels, that the most ancient people on this earth lived in like manner as the inhabitants of the planet Jupiter, viz. that they were distinguished into nations, families, and houses, and that all at that time were content with their own possessions;
I guess it would be a miracle that there are still people that think there is any merit to Swedenborg even at this day and age, but let's face it when it comes to Christians no matter how stupid and erroneous something is, they'll still believe it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
