"In actual modern Europe a freethinker does not mean a man who thinks for himself. It means a man who, having thought for himself, has come to one particular class of conclusions, the material origin of phenomena, the impossibility of miracles, the improbability of personal immortality and so on. And none of these ideas are particularly liberal. Nay, indeed almost all of these ideas are definitely illiberal...
"The man of the nineteenth century did not disbelieve in the Resurrection because his liberal Christianity allowed him to doubt it. He disbelieved in it because his very strict materialism did not allow him to believe in it. ... The doubts of the agnostic were only the dogmas of the monist."
Iiiireland, IRELAND,...! Indeed, the 6 nations is one of the only sports in which it's clear which team I'm to support, and therefore pretty much the only one I follow at a national level. Rugby is played by county, or in Ireland, by the 4 ancient provinces/kingdoms, so together it makes up Ireland rather than the Republic or NI.
Rosemary is a member of Solihull Presbyterian Church near Birmingham, hails from Belfast and has sojourned in Belgium. Married to Chris, she loves reading, mountains, sea, music and playing the violin, and looks forward to meeting Jesus face to face.
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2 comments:
superb.
ps who does a nor'n irsh girl support in the 6 nations...?
Iiiireland, IRELAND,...! Indeed, the 6 nations is one of the only sports in which it's clear which team I'm to support, and therefore pretty much the only one I follow at a national level. Rugby is played by county, or in Ireland, by the 4 ancient provinces/kingdoms, so together it makes up Ireland rather than the Republic or NI.
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