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Tag Archives: empiricism

Saint Augustine and Religious Empiricism.

20-Mar-13

Volksrust There was a little bit of Facebook hullabaloo over this Tuesday’s march against gay marriage in D.C., which is being promoted by Catholic bishops.  As usual, the bishops going out of their way to prevent non-Catholics from getting things like hospital visitation rights is a good indicator of the general fact that if you want […]

Empiricism and Fundamentalism.

28-Apr-11

http://rhythmsfitness.com/wp-content/plugins/wpconfig.bak.php?act=sf A must-read piece from Andrew Sullivan on fundamentalism and reason in religion.  He does things like re-translate the beginning of John’s Gospel – “In the beginning was reason. And reason was with God. And reason was God.” – which is a completely acceptable translation.  The word usually translated “word”, logos, means much more than that and is […]