“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place” (Psalm 8:3)
“In a universe of … blind physical forces … some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to
get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has … no design, no
purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
Richard DawkinsRiver Out of Eden:
A Darwinian View of Life
If there is no right or wrong, all things are
permitted.
Self fulfilment regardless of social cohesion
Totalitarian regimes.
How do we avoid falling into the madhouse?
(The Noble Lie) is one that deceives
us, tricks us, compels us beyond
self-interest, beyond ego, beyond family, nation, [and] race …
But without such lies, we cannot live.
Dr L. R. Rue, PhilosopherThe Noble Lie
For you (God) created my inmost being;you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
(Psalm 139: 13/14/16)