Sunday, November 23, 2008
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Jeff Jacoby: A question of faith - '...It is no coincidence that so many hospitals, schools, and aid organizations have been started and sustained by religious groups. "We are creatures designed to flourish - to heal and to help - when we believe," Wolpe writes. Religion makes the world better, notwithstanding all the ways in which it has been perverted. A world without God and faith would be hellish. Maybe it's also no coincidence that Wolpe's book ends with the word "love," while the final word in Maher's film is "die."...'