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G.K. Chesterton wrote:
The ordinary man has always been sane because the ordinary man was always a mystic. He has permitted the twilight. He has always had one foot in earth and the other in fairyland. He has always left himself free... Read More
A bout a year ago, I wrote a piece for the Nicene Guys about the possibility of salvation for infants. I received a pair of comments from the same person, which I largely dismissed; now I would like to add an addendum to reply to my commentor (and more importantly any actually curious minds) more fully. I have therefore re-published the whole thing, complete with the addendum.
I usually don't take the time to reply to poorly thought-out comments such as his. Basically, my thoughts on... Read More
Will we be bored in heaven after an eternity? I was asked this question by a friend yesterday after Mass--she was passing the question on after having been asked it by her brother (if I am properly recalling). Can we be blissfully bored? Can the state of infinite happiness exist alongside of infinite boredom? My instinctive answer is no. In order to give a better, answer, it's worth recounting a story about Saint Thomas Aquinas. Here is a saint whose philosophical writings are so formid... Read More
If you are reading this, presumably the rapture did not occur on Saturday, May 21, 2011 as predicted by Mr Harold Camping. I suppose, though, that if only 144,000 people (a literalist's interpretation of Apocalypse 7:1-8) will be taken to heaven in all the world, then the rapture might have happened and we simply didn't notice it, since this equates to roughly 1:10,000 living Christians world-wide (or ~1:45,000 people worldwide), and would barely make a blip on the "Missing Persons" reports.... Read More
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