Evidence, proof, claims, slogans, stock phrases and finally utter mediocrity.

The conversion experience of Pascal is so familiar among the many milestones of each individual Christian journey and like many things in life it resonates with those who have known how that spirit lights up a life including the intelligence of the individual.

https://churchpop.com/2016/04/19/nig...laise-pascals/

It is why I can have such fun with the empirical theorists and their followers who haven't the slightest intellectual ability to scroll through history and spot the different twists and turns in technical and societal terms.


"To know more, one must feel less, and vice versa… Nature, the soul, love, and God, one recognizes through the heart, and not through the reason. Were we spirits, we could dwell in that region of ideas over which our souls hover, seeking the solution. But we are earth-born beings, and can only guess at the Idea — not grasp it by all sides at once. The guide for our intelligences through the temporary illusion into the innermost centre of the soul is called Reason. Now, Reason is a material capacity, while the soul or spirit lives on the thoughts which are whispered by the heart.. Thought is born in the soul. Reason is a tool, a machine, which is driven by the spiritual fire. When human reason … penetrates into the domain of knowledge, it works independently of the feeling, and consequently of the heart." Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In a way it is so funny to see the pretense of speaking to each other when you all should be speaking to your own hearts where, as those Christians have said that God known by the heart is so much different than God guessed at by the brain.

God is mutual love, not for yourself but for all creation.