Jun
01
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic. Post 10. I Am Who Am: God does not exist… (2)
I’m taking many of my ideas here from Edward Sillem’s book Ways of Thinking about God. It is important to realise...
May
29
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic post 9. I Am Who Am. God does not exist…(1)
…or certainly not in the sense in which the term is usually taken. The supposedly classical arguments for the existence of God...
May
20
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic Post 8. Quantum (2) It Gets Weirder Still.
Ever since Bohr, faced with the paradox of how matter can be both particle and wave, had proposed that real things do not exist...
May
15
2020
Chapter One
Comedy and Catastrophe
How has it come about that I, who entered the monastic life for all the wrong reasons, and then, finding myself most unhappy, bored by the endless services and experiencing the half hour per day of...
May
11
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic:Post 6
Quantum (1): Baffled? Bewildered? Me too.
For me my own struggles with quantum physics have been extremely important in my re-discovery of religion. I can’t understand it of course, but then neither...
Apr
22
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic. Post 2. The Most Evil Institution in History. A Theological Blog 18 – iii - 20
It was only when Richard Dawkins awoke me from my dogmatic slumbers that I began to...
Apr
21
2020
Yet I Still Want to be a Catholic.
Post 6. Facts and Meanings
Most of the humanists I know are contemptuous of religion because they think that science, and only science, can tell us truth. Only the intellectual rigour of the...
Apr
18
2020
Yet I still want to be a Catholic.
Post 5. Belief Boxes (2.) The chimps and us
We forget how close we are genetically to the chimpanzees, we share over 99% of our genes with them. Our lineage split from theirs...