Maths of Good and Evil
We cannot fight evil with evil. We can fight evil only by adding good deeds to the “common good”.
God’s Voice Message to Humankind
In one of the episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond, Debra (Patricia Heaton) records a voice message ho her husband Ray: “I will never leave you … you stupid, stupid man!’ That sounds like a God’s voice message to the whole humankind.
Development of an Apostle
St. Paul Self-proclaimed saviour of the religion of YHWH On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him. But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and […]
On Works of Mercy
Young people say, “what can one person do? What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we can only lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment. But we can beg for an increase […]
On Overlapping Magisteria
Many thinkers follow Stephen Jay Gould’s concept of non-overlapping magisteria (NOMA), which holds that science and religion are two distinct domains that don’t coincide. Science covers the empirical universe while religion covers questions of moral meaning and ethical value. Yet the book Science at the Doorstep to God of Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. argues […]
On Henry Ford or Engineering Choice
What I am amazed at is that serious thinkers today continue to ask us to choose between God and science. That’s like asking people to choose between Henry Ford and engineering as an explanation of the motor car. — John Lennox