Thursday, September 22, 2005
Status of religion
Some excerpts from Huston Smith's new book The Soul of Christianity: Restoring the Great Tradition:
Science is not omnicompetent. 'Our physical senses are not the only senses we have.'No one has ever seen a thought. No one has ever seen a feeling. Yet our thoughts and feelings are where we primarily live our lives.
Religion is everywhere, except in the intelligentsia, the people who rule our country, and in the media.
The mainline churches have surrendered too much to modern secularism. The language they preserve -- but the fire isn't in their souls.
Liberal Christianity has turned religion into mere morality, leaving churches with nothing to offer their members except rallying cries to be good. ... The authority of religion has waned along with the mystery of the sacred.
Science is not omnicompetent. 'Our physical senses are not the only senses we have.'No one has ever seen a thought. No one has ever seen a feeling. Yet our thoughts and feelings are where we primarily live our lives.
Religion is everywhere, except in the intelligentsia, the people who rule our country, and in the media.
The mainline churches have surrendered too much to modern secularism. The language they preserve -- but the fire isn't in their souls.
Liberal Christianity has turned religion into mere morality, leaving churches with nothing to offer their members except rallying cries to be good. ... The authority of religion has waned along with the mystery of the sacred.
