"To you, O LORD, I cry, and to the Lord I plead for mercy:
"What profit is there in my death, if I go down to the pit?
Will the dust praise you?
Will it tell of your faithfulness?
Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me! O LORD, be my helper!"
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- Psalm 30:8-10, English Standard Version
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Via World Views, this fascinating article by the English writer and physician Theodore Dalrymple, on the question of whether religious people are, or are not, actually nicer people than the secular kind.
You won't agree with everything, but it's a fascinating snapshot.
I enjoyed the article by Dalrymple (thanks for mentioning it) but I have to disagree with something he said. "I certainly don’t want to live myself in a state in which a single religion has a predominant or even strong say in the running of it."
- I consider secular Humanism to be a religion; and if one so considers it, his quote makes no sense. (Over and over you run into this illusion by humanists that Humanism is not a religion. In terms of biblical theology it most certainly is. In fact it's little different from the statist religion of the Romans.)
- as an agnostic he's denying the possibility that there is Truth in the world.