Posts tagged religion

Apr 18

“Today’s radical conservatism is an unholy and unstable hodgepodge of ideas that are fundamentally alien to each other. This marriage is doomed.” Susan Brooks Thislethwaite, “The Gospel according to Ayn Rand,” On Faith, The Washington Post, April 18, 2011.

Oct 30

“Why should I vote two of my values to the exclusion of all others? In that question lies the problem of the Christian allegiance to the Republican Party.” Rob J., The Conservative Christian Case for Supporting Obama (Opinion Streams, 10/28/2008)

Jun 2

“The greatest miracle is that the true, genuine miracles can and should become ordinary.” Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan the Wise with Related Documents, trans. by Ronald Schechter (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004), 29.

The play first appeared in 1779. Here Lessing’s main character, Nathan, is making the point that miracles need not be supernatural. Instead they can be the result of ordinary human nature and actions. His daughter Recha thinks she had been saved from a fire by angels. Nathan knows that a human did it, and he finds the act no less wondrous.

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