Category Archives: on Denial, Doubt, and Divinity

The Question of Immortality, its Nature and Loci

An offering for the feast of St  Anne in loving memory of my parents, who first took me to her shrine at Beaupre, and of Catherine, Josephine, and Matilda, my grandmothers Is there something about the human that endures after … Continue reading

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The Easter Error

Before I begin this discourse, it is necessary to place before the reader three propositions, items I deem necessary, if not to the logic, at least to the spirit in which the arguments are performed. First, I am not without … Continue reading

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Occidental Ideas, Part 25: Peroration and Peregrination

A young man, recounting to me his university years, explained that he had initially taken some courses in philosophy and theology but, finding them nebulous, opted to embrace a career in a field of intellectual surety, in science. Internally I … Continue reading

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Can a Christian be an atheist?

They that have been reading my publications[i] ought to be able to provide my answer to this question recently put to me. But, lest I have not been sufficiently explicit, allow me to review the issues anterior to the answer. … Continue reading

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on Dogma and Science

As a child I lived in a world of my own. Nothing mattered. Nothing interested, except things ecclesiastical. An introvert without challenge or society, I was adrift in my own fascinations, sedate in my own bathos. I found the concretization … Continue reading

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on Heaven

I recently received a complaint that preachers talk about heaven but never discuss what one does in heaven. Succinctly put: one does nothing. One “IS” in heaven, one does not “DO” things in heaven. Before I attempt an elucidation of … Continue reading

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on God within, an eclaircissement for believers

I am informed that as a result of my last publication some have taken to their prayer desks with carcanets of ice to pray for me, the pantheist! Arise and desist. The rumour is false. To them that had such … Continue reading

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