Tuesday, December 30, 2008

End of Year

Now is the time when everyone gets sappy regarding the end of the current year and the beginning of the new one. It would be best to spare myself (and you, dear reader) the pain of such disjointed musings. What would be nice instead is a lovely mug of Earl Grey and a day on the couch reading.

I will say that in the past year, some of my thinking has been challenged and to a certain extent remodeled. An anti-abortion, pro-war, pro-death penalty mantra as exercised by mainstream evangelical America is conflicting at best. Who really deserves to die?

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"PRIDE GOES BEFORE DESTRUCTION" AND IN OUR MODERN ERA, PRIDE AMONG THE NATURAL SCIENCES HAS TAKEN THE FORM OF OVERESTIMATING OUR KNOWLEDGE, OF ARROGATING FOR SCIENCE A KIND OF OMNISCIENCE THE WE DO NOT IN FACT HAVE. OR, TO REFINE IT A BIT: "PLAYING GOD" MEANS WE CONFUSE THE KNOWLEDGE WE DO HAVE WITH THE WISDOM TO KNOW HOW TO USE IT.