Heretical musings on religion and culture from a literary scholar
Today on Steven Pressfield's blog he posted an article called How Resistance Proves the Existence of God. Let me start by saying, I saw this coming years ago. I saw it in his now famous "War or Art" and in the interview he did with Oprah. I saw it in the new book "Do the Work" Seth Godin asked him to write. In brief, Pressfield believes that we are all called to produce art, and our greatest enemy in ...
I first encountered St. Anselm's Proof of God during my undergraduate studies in philosophy and theology. I was at the time a struggling Christian, and there is a power and simplicity in Anselm's logical proof of God's existence that - once you get it - seems mystical. It dances around in your brain, both inviting you to look closer but refusing to be nailed down. As a logical proof it is inescapable and undeniable, but ...
(God's Blog) I woke up with the sniffles so I spent the morning causing thunder and lightning storms (thunder is the sound I make when I sneeze). Anyway, if you read my blog you know I've been pretty busy lately, killing Osama bin Laden, killing people with tornadoes and earthquakes, and stuff like that - so I haven't had much time recently for creative expression. And what I really enjoy is planting subtle little clues about ...
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