The Past Can Be Used To Renew

The New Testament Is A Brutal Destroyer Of Human Illusions. If You Follow Jesus And Don't End Up Dead, It Appears You Have Some Explaining To Do. The Stark Signifier Of The Human Condition Is One Who Spoke Up For Love And Justice And Was Done To Death For His Pains. The Traumatic Truth Of Human History Is A Mutilated Body.

Christian Faith, As I Understand It, Is Not Primarily A Matter Of Signing On For The Proposition That There Exists A Supreme Being, But The Kind Of Commitment Made Manifest By A Human Being At The End Of His Tether, Foundering In Darkness, Pain, And Bewilderment, Who Nevertheless Remains Faithful To The Promise Of A Transformative Love.

Most Poetry In The Modern Age Has Retreated To The Private Sphere, Turning Its Back On The Political Realm.

Dawkins Considers That All Faith Is Blind Faith, And That Christian And Muslim Children Are Brought Up To Believe Unquestioningly. Not Even The Dim-witted Clerics Who Knocked Me About At Grammar School Thought That.

Like All The Best Radical Positions, Then, Mine Is A Thoroughly Traditionalist One.