I Think, Therefore I Am Stressed

Sideblog • Main blog • My spot for religious and philosophical discussions • Some deep quotes • Maybe an apostasy or two

[the-philosophical-rowan]

“In common parlance, this is known as having your cake and eating it too: desiring a system, a framework to give shape, stability, and purpose to life, but equally desiring that that system make no actual, enforceable moral demands upon us. This dual desire not only animates Epicureanism, but plays a central role in Stoicism, pantheism, deism, Unitarianism, and transcendentalism. How wonderful it is, when all is well, to be able to celebrate order and meaning in the universe. But how convenient it is, when one wants to break the rules, to know that the universe is finally an uncaring, impersonal place.”

- Louis Markos, “Atheism on Trial”

[petitefleuriste]

Christians can never sin cheaply; they pay a heavy price for iniquity. Transgression destroys peace of mind, obscures fellowship with Jesus, hinders prayer, brings darkness over the soul; therefore be not the serf and bondman of sin.  — Charles Spurgeon

[the-philosophical-rowan]

"The cosmological argument of Aristotle and Aquinas states that if there is no First Mover to initiate movement, then we are left with infinite regress. Both we and our universe are contingent - that is, we rely on an outside cause to give us being and motion."

- Louis Markos, Atheism on Trial