[lit-ideas] Re: Better to have had faith
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 14:16:21 +0900
On 2005/05/20, at 12:49, Eternitytime1@xxxxxxx wrote:
> "Lord, I
> believe; help my unbelief" is the most natural and most human and
> most agonizing
> prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of
> faith.
There is also Aldous Huxley's proposition that, while in a
secularized future faith would be hard to come by, religion would
survive because some, at least, would find a life incorporating the
rites, taboos, music and art of their churches more aesthetically
pleasing than other alternatives.
John McCreery
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