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Faith and Rationality: Can they Co-exist?

Faith and Rationality: Can they Co-exist?

Can faith and rationality co-exist? For most of my life, I believed - passionately - that they could. But life being what it is, I have come to view faith in God as not terribly rational. And yet, I just realized I was wrong. In the words of Ricky Ricardo, "give me a chance...

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Cigars with YHWH

Cigars with YHWH

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God."  YHWH stirred a finger in his scotch, his cigar hanging from the other hand. He gazed into the distance and sighed. "I really liked that bit when we first thought of it." He paused, blew a smoke...

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Thrown It All Away

Thrown It All Away

Mama, just killed a man. Put my gun up to his head, pulled my trigger. Now he's dead. Mama, life has just begun. But now I've gone and thrown it all away. Throw it all away. The great ones do, and they leave us richer because they don't hold back. The great ones leave life with...

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Dick Led Me to Yeats

Dick Led Me to Yeats

Or perhaps it would make more sense to say that VALIS led me to The Second Coming, and who knows where I will go from there? (Yeah, that headline might possibly be designed to troll for hits.) I discovered this poem - The Second Coming - by W.B. Yeats whilst reading Philip K....

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Church, State and Net Neutrality

Church, State and Net Neutrality

When the US Constitution was written and approved in 1789, the Christian churches exercised a power over the culture that was at least equal - if not superior to - the power of the central government. For that reason, the culture in which the Constitution was created must be...

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