All is Changing
Things are very busy, but here is a quick post anyway. By quick, I mean ‘Less thought out’, not ‘Shorter’.
At last I’ve found a suitable and available domain name for the blog. It’s registered and hosted, but still very much a secret. Turns out that coming up with a name for the new blog was the easy part. Finding an available domain name to go with the blog name, that my friends was a nightmare.
Last night I went to mass, my first church attendance since becoming what Dawkins would - jokingly? - refer to as a ‘militant atheist’. The mass was in honour of those whom recently passed away at the Holy Family home. My grandmother spent her last days there, and was one of those honoured. She was religious, and would have approved; I on the other hand couldn’t help thinking that a better way to celebrate the lives of those passed away would be through the reading of eulogies by the respective family members.
I’ve finished “The End of Faith” by Sam Harris. The book shook me up a bit as it plainly describes views that are globally censored, and few dare utter even among friends. This alone would not be enough to shake me up - I’m good at dismissing psychotic dogma. Factually Sam’s ideas do not fall under this category - this is what makes those ideas so difficult to swallow -, but my gut was screaming ‘psycho’. You know a book was worth reading when it puts your logic and instincts at odds! Needless to say, I’ll need some time to examine and reflect on the thoughts brought forward by Mr. Harris. Here, I feel obliged to add that assuming the book accurately represents our world issues, I strongly disagree with many of the solutions alluded to by the author.
Since this is to be a short entry, I’ll pause my written thoughts here and leave you with the words of Richard Dawkins. May they spark your mind with reasonable thought.
‘Those of us who have for years politely concealed our contempt for the dangerous collective delusion of religion need to stand up and speak out. Things are different now. “All is changed, changed utterly.”‘