Sunday, October 04, 2015

Revisiting the Varieties of Religious Experience

Science establishes no new beliefs; it merely destroys old ones. "The God whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively," he writes, "a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business." Most men and women require a more personal God. "The gods we stand by are the gods we need and can use, the gods whose demands on us are reinforcements of our demands on ourselves and on one another."  (The link is to Google's search because of the WSJ firewall - pick the first item on the Google search list.) 

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