God talk

  We have now come to the last chapter of the first book.   We have traveled very far.   We have learned that when God created humanity in Adam and Eve, they were perfect and the world we live in was also perfect. Sin came into the world and there was a fall.   Every aspect of humanity was then tainted by sin and corruption.   We have also learned that a lot of scholars reject this story and follow the path of an enlightenment in which ‘science’ somehow rules.   They follow a line of corruption to perfection.   Many so-called Christian theologians bought into this enlightenment and from my point of view sold out the Christian revelations that is found in Scripture (Holy Bible).   Karl Barth for example spoke against his own teachers because of this.   He saw through to the conclusion of what was going on.   The extermination of many Jews at Auschwitz, the murder of whole populations in Russia by Stalin, even Churchill had serious att...

  Butterfly from my garden. Having gone this far on the topic of conscience we can see that it is a very important subject and topic.   This is something that should certainly be in any Religious Studies course. Possibly educationalists would prefer to have it under psychology.   One of the problems with comparative religion at schools and colleges is that each religion is looked at for its main features, practices, geographical location et.al.   Then one might have compare contrast, explain questions and finish off with an essay type question. This does not answer the question of how religious or non- religious people look at how to get on with their neighbour or what to do when one sees a crisis brewing. For people in general doing the ‘right thing’ is important and for others ‘what they can get away with.’ As a society of fellow human beings, when we do something wrong, how is the after feeling?   Or when we do something right, how is the after feeling? ...