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God and Not God

10/17/2012

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All that can be said of God is not God--St. Catherine of Siena

I once skated perilously close to the edge of religious fundamentalism. It almost killed me. Literally, not figuratively. The year I turned 30, the thought of taking my life never left me. Fundamentalism, I’ve realized in hindsight, is a straitjacket for the human soul. With its penchant for absolute certainty, fundamentalism squeezes the sap of mystery from the tree of life. And life without mystery is so dull and constrained as to be hardly worth the living.    

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Rediscovering Fire

10/2/2012

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Some day,
after mastering the wind, the waves, the tides, and gravity,
we will harness for God the energies of Love,
and then for the second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.

—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

The poetic words above hint at a hopeful turn of events around the bend of humanity’s future. Religion and science, which separated after Copernicus and divorced after Darwin, may one day reconcile.    

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    Dave Pruett, a former NASA scientist, is an emeritus professor of mathematics at JMU.

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