The Big Questions God - now published!
By Mark Vernon on Wednesday, April 25 2012, 10:22 - Events - Permalink
I see that amazon has stock of The Big Questions: God...
'He is, quite simply, one of the few writers in England today who really understands the impulse to religious belief and how a faithless age can respond. There are few others I trust to bring such intelligence and sympathy to these issues.' Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian
Religion’s 20 biggest questions answered in accessible and thought-provoking mini-essays.
1. Can reason prove the existence of God?
2. Will science bring the end of religion?
3. Why do people still have religious beliefs?
4. Is religion a mistake of evolution?
5. Can drugs induce religious experiences?
6. Can you be spiritual without being religious?
7. Have you seen a miracle?
8. What is the literal meaning of Scripture?
9. If you’re not religious, is nothing sacred?
10. Can an agnostic pray?
11. Is religion inherently violent?
12. What is it like to be a fundamentalist?
13. What is Buddhist enlightenment?
14. Is Confucianism a religion?
15. Is nature divine?
16. Is there a perennial philosophy?
17. Does human suffering rule out God?
18. Can we be good without God?
19. Are we living in the end times?
20. Is there life after death?
Comments
kindled!
The heart has a question.
The heart must be satisfied.
Without that Satisfaction - Which is necessarily Spiritual in Nature - there is no Real Happiness
The Godless self-contracted egoic life is a self-caused search to be relieved of the distress of self-reduced, self-diminished, even utterly self-destroyed Love-Bliss.
Love-Bliss gone, non-existent, unknown - just this pumping, agitated, psycho-physical thing.
The ego="I" does not know what it IS that is happening.
You are just hanging out for a while, until the body drops dead.
It is not good enough.
You must Realize the spiritual condition of existence itself - prior to the cosmic domain.
You cannot be sane if you think there is only flesh, only materiality, only grossness.
Such thinking is not fully natural, not enough, aberrated.
There is Something you are not accounting for.
Be open to whatever that Is.
It is not enough to merely go on presuming the materialist disposition - even by just rhetorically asking the Big Questions.
All is One
All are the same.
All equally require Divine Compassion, Love, and Blessing, the thread of Communion with the Divine made certain and true and directly experienced. All