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From: dxf <dxforth@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Merry Christmas everyone!
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:24:30 +1100
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On 27/12/2024 11:43 pm, LIT wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2KSYEtMeyA
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Don't mention Christmas to scholars.  They're known for getting into the
>>>>>>>>>>>> weeds...
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owxgIG56Nu8
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://youtu.be/dRPvWCiSvjs?t=6060
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Catholic?  They've had many years to perfect torture :)
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> https://www.ccel.org/ccel/c/chesterton/orthodoxy/cache/orthodoxy.pdf
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Exactly
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> :)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> How about one more:
>>>>>>> https://www.fisheaters.com/srpdf/The-Autobiogrphy-Of-G-K-Chesterton.pdf
>>>>>>
>>>>>> "If it be true (as it certainly is) that a man can feel exquisite
>>>>>> happiness
>>>>>>  in skinning a cat, [...]"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Frighteningly I can imagine G. K. Chesterton skinning a cat (atheists
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> sure).
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, what Chesterton is getting at is how man
>>>>> confronts the presence of evil in the world,
>>>>> and how that fits in with the existence of God.
>>>>
>>>> For Einstein the problem of God was "too vast for our limited minds"
>>>> yet every preacher will confidently tell one what God is and wants.
>>>
>>> „If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
>>> (G.K. Chesterton)
>>>
>>> :)
>>
>> Were you born with belief, or was it acquired?  If the latter then it's
>> optional.
> 
> „When men choose not to believe in God, they do
> not thereafter believe in nothing, they then
> become capable of believing in anything.” ― G.K. Chesterton

Seeing belief for what it is ends, not one, but all.

The locals will be getting restless so enough Christmas from me ...