It is also the feast of the three Archangels Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael.
You can read more about it here.
One of the wonderful ambiguities of religious tradition is the way that what may seem from the outside to be a simple “symbolic” allegory is, in fact, multivalent and complementary.
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For Urbantasm, I’ve been reading up quite a bit on theology, eschatology, and the occult. John Bridge considers himself to be the antichrist, and the novel deals quite a bit with religious themes, particularly concerning the nature of space and infinity.
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Meandering thoughts this Thursday morning.
One of the major reasons I ultimately left the Unitarian Church was because its defined search for truth was so unfocused that it didn’t offer me much by way of spiritual nourishment.
That said, looking back at the changes in religion and religious organization over the last millennium, and then considering the present and future, I wonder what changes are ahead.
… Read the restSam sent me this Op-Ed from the Boston Globe and this more coherent rebuttal.
Here’s what I contributed to the discussion:
… Read the restYou are 100% correct. And here’s the real irony. Newton would surely have rejected today’s creationism both with and without the benefit of today’s better science.
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