Rodent Regatta

Dance and drama are artistic forms which means they have generally to be interpreted. Unlike drama, preaching is direct and has no need for interpretation.

Avoiding Evil
April 6, 2004

In an entry titled Breathtaking Hypocrisy Susan links to Susanna’s comments about the moral equivocation over violence as portrayed in The Passion of the Christ and Kill Bill 2.

Scientific, legal and philosophical practices had to be extremely pliable to give us the past eighty or so years of debate since the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925. World Magazine has done a fantastic job of explaining just where the science has and is taking us, now that we are willing to get back to valid scientific methods of research and discovery. No thinking person should proceed through the weekend with reading The View From 2025: How Design Beat Darwin.

Five pieces make up the cover story: | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

Do people with all the answers bother you? Do people who are so sure of themselves get on your nerves? What about people who claim to be keepers, guardians and interpreters of ”the truth?”

When these folks are reluctant to recognize any sort of ambiguity in life, or to try to understand the struggles of others less fortunate, it truly annoys me. Life isn’t simple. Life isn’t simple for Christians. Christians shouldn’t portray themselves as people with all the answers in life. Yes, there is truth. Yes, we can know truth.

Yet, there is not some shield of protection covering those who call themselves Christians. There is also no corner on truth.