Posted in quotes on May 22nd, 2010
Here’s a longish quote from David Foster Wallace on the real work of staying awake and finding freedom. He wasn’t a Christian, and we would have disagreed on many things (although he’d be a gazillion times more insightful in his perspective than I would) – but we agree on what he says here… And I [...]
Posted in quotes on Mar 11th, 2009
One of the things we must never do when reading the Bible is fall for allegorical interpretations… Israel is not secret code for “the church” and the bridegroom in Song of Songs is not a code word for Jesus. Medieval Europeans loved that sort of thing, but unless something is clearly written as an allegory [...]
Posted in quotes on Apr 16th, 2008
Some of you have heard me refer to this… Well here’s the full quote (more or less): “Thousands of centuries ago huge, very heavily armoured creatures were evolved. If anyone had at that time been watching the course of Evolution he would probably have expected that it was going to go on to heavier and [...]