Taking Religion Seriously

I love these quotes

Taking religion seriously means work. If you’re waiting for a road-to-Damascus experience, you’re kidding yourself. Getting inside the wisdom of the great religions doesn’t happen by sitting on beaches, watching sunsets and waiting for enlightenment. It can easily require as much intellectual effort as a law degree.

The Sunday school stories I learned as a child bear no resemblance to Christianity taken seriously. You’ve got to grapple with the real thing.

And my favorite gold nugget –

Start by jarring yourself out of unreflective atheism or agnosticism. A good way to do that is to read about contemporary cosmology. The universe isn’t only stranger than we knew; it is stranger and vastly more unlikely than we could have imagined, and we aren’t even close to discovering its last mysteries. That reading won’t lead you to religion, but it may stop you from being unreflective.

Time to go watch some Groundhog’s Day.

Hey Hawkgrrrll it looks like we read the same articles. I’m friends with Dennis Prager on Facebook, (maybe the correct terminology is “I follow him”) and he shared a link to that article, and then I shared his link to that article. It’s great. Thanks.

“follow”…. “stalk”…. six of one half dozen of another. 😆

I always say “I’m stalking so-and-so on the internet.” I just like unnerving people.

Back to the OP – I’ll be sharing on facebook!