“O tempora, o mores!” Marcus Tullius Cicero growled these famous words to the Roman senate in the first century BC to decry the deterioration of civilized society. “Oh the times!” he lamented. “Oh the standards!” Today, over two thousand years…
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“The World is Going to Hell in a Handbasket!”
Tagged with: chaos, Christianity, Cicero, Hesiod, Nebuchadnezzar’s dream, new Jerusalem, o tempora o mores, Ovid, religion, science, spirituality, technology, what's the matter with kids today
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Science Philosophy and History
Do Atheists Go to Heaven?
Do atheists go to heaven? For most atheists, the obvious answer is, “No.” Ironically, atheists agree with traditional Christians on this point. It’s just that atheists don’t think anyone else goes to heaven, either. And traditional Christians think that atheists…
Tagged with: agnosticism, agnostics, atheism, atheists, believing in God, fundamentalism, God, heaven, Jesus Christ, justice, science, the Bible
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Aliens vs. Advent: Swedenborg’s 1758 Book on Extraterrestrial Life
Aliens are very popular these days. Not that we’ve ever actually seen a real one. (No, I don’t go for all the UFO stuff.) But just try to tell Hollywood that! To judge by the movie releases, the galaxy is…
Tagged with: Advent, aliens, Christianity, cosmology, Earths in the Universe, Emanuel Swedenborg, extraterrestrials, Jesus Christ, SETI, Swedenborg, the Bible, the spiritual world, UFO
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in All About God, Science Philosophy and History
Is Heaven Physical? Can Angels Play Tennis?
In a comment on my recent article, “The Afterlife: It’s Not as Different as you Think!” a reader named Richard Neer responded to my statement that angels go through their daily life in much the same way we do here…
Seasons of Life
In January of 1969, a photo was published that forever changed our view of the earth, and of our place in the universe. The photo was taken on Christmas Eve day, 1968, by the crew of Apollo 8—the first humans…
Tagged with: autumn, death, earthrise, fall, old age, seasons, spiritual rebirth, spirituality, spring, summer, winter, youth
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Science Philosophy and History, Spiritual Growth
How can we have Faith when So Many Bad Things happen to So Many Good People? Part 2
Click here for Part 1 of this article. In Part 1, we talked about the painful struggles of life, our questioning of God, and how coming to realize that we don’t understand the way God runs this universe is a…
Tagged with: cosmology, Creation, evil, God, human society, natural disasters, nature, pain, science, suffering, the universe, violence
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Science Philosophy and History
Do the Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg take Precedence over the Bible?
Here is a question that a reader named Lara asked in a comment on the article, “Did Jesus Really Die to Pay the Penalty for our Sins?”: I was wondering why so much of your site and the large majority…
Noah’s Ark: A Sea Change in the Human Mind
What do the stories of Creation and Noah’s Ark have in common? Umm . . . atheists and fundamentalists spend a lot of time arguing about them? Haha! Yes they do. But besides that? They’re both really old? Yes, they…
Viktor Frankl on Meaning in the Midst of Suffering
For Part 1 of this article, see “Viktor Frankl on Meaning through Work.” For Part 2 of this article, see “Viktor Frankl on Meaning through Relationship: It’s All About Love and Understanding.” In the second part of Man’s Search for…
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