50+. Thoughts, observations and insights with 4 decades with "religious studies", theology, philosophy, history...but intending less sub specie academiae, or sub specie scientiae, and rather sub specie aeternitatis. "Was du ererbt von deinen Vätern hast, erwirb es, um es zu besitzen", Goethe: Faust I, Nacht, Vers 682. [Photo from Mt. Scopus]
Thursday, March 20, 2014
that's a hell of a reason
considering the massive, brutal and systematic inhumanity of man to man* in the 20th century..
one can only hope that it was a reasonable mistake for the 17th and 18th centuries to have disbelieved in hell
*from Robert Burns' 1784 poem Man was
made to mourn: A Dirge
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