For secularists who do not take this story literally, it can also be understood as a metaphorical literary device on the fall of Man, as there is no doubt that anyone who tries to play the part of God ends up ‘toast’ and buried.
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In a recent report during Men’s Mental Health Week, The Irish Catholic newspaper quoted a parish priest who said: “Priests are not immune to mental health struggles.” Priests are not immune to mental health struggles, PP says during Men’s Mental Health Week – The Irish Catholic Fr Michael Toomey, of St Carlo Acutis Parish Pastoral Area in the Diocese of Waterford and Lismore, said in a homily: Over the past number of years here in Ireland and around the world, and as recently as earlier this year in our own area, priests have died by suicide… There is a tendency to place priests on a pedestal [*this was surely the case prior to 1990, but not currently], expecting them to Read More ›
The addiction of constantly scrolling is like we are forever searching for something in a kind of eternal loop to reach a perfected digital fix of some sort.
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No person who is not demonically possessed could seriously harm/torture another human being without waking up in the middle of the night screaming.
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Good dialogue is like great poetry where the real meaning can sometimes be hidden or disguised beneath the words.
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Tabloid subeditors often write of sick babies struggling to stay alive as being ‘brave’, but babies are too young to fully understand heroic virtue or practise it.
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The mid-/late-1960s was a watershed in Sci-Fi movies, with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey being released two years after The Fantastic Voyage.
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Science Fiction writers have over the past 100-plus years been warning us about the horrors of a dystopian future, but now we are reaching the point where such Sci-Fi stories are now becoming ‘Faction’.
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In a Godless universe, love, self-sacrifice, friendship, relationships, pro-creation, art and literature are nothing more than relatively subjective illusions to pass the time and avoid boredom with no ultimate purpose or objective meaning.
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From Facebook to Twitter [now ‘X’], any lover of the English language would not be inclined to ‘LOL’ but weep in despair at the lack of creativity.
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Those with empty lives only believe in things that they like, usually spoken by those in authority who mirror their ideological preferences.
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The majority of distinguished biblical scholars agree on the witnesses’ testimonies of the appearances of Jesus after the crucifixion.
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Boredom can also be a proxy for other risk factors, leading to self-destructive behaviours such as drug/alcohol abuse, hardcore pornography addiction, unbridled promiscuity, crime, and, in the worst-case scenario, suicide.
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A Japanese study found that simply looking at a dog can increase levels of oxytocin, a chemical released by the pituitary gland that’s associated with human bonding and affection.
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In literature, one of the most famous books of the 20th century and beyond focuses on vision: 1984, with Big Brother always watching you.
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When it comes to farming, the Dutch government has decided nitrogen is the devil that plagues the Netherlands, but the UK government is fighting a war against its own Beelzebub which takes shape in the form of methane.
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Let us not forget that the Founding Fathers of the US Constitution all read, and were probably influenced, by Milton’s poem.
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A retired psychotherapist from Arizona who spent some 40 years working in hospitals and prisons with schizophrenic patients, was quite disturbed when his analysis of some patients pointed to the supernatural.
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People can be agnostic on many things, such as historical events, like the authenticity of the moon landings, who shot JFK, or even the existence of the external world.
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For Berkeley, God is the basis for improving one’s life, not damaging it, and a common-sense view of life is the best path to achieving such a goal.
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