Posted on 12/23/2013 10:14:07 PM PST by chessplayer
Via the Daily Caller, you can’t put a clip in front of me of a conservative as prominent as the Hammer embracing atheism and not expect it to be blogged. It’s like AMC airing a very special episode of “The Walking Dead” where Rick (finally!) gets eaten. It’s not that I want to blog it, I have to blog it, as a sort of virtual high-five to the readership. Even though I realize that, on this one, I’m destined to end up like Tom Brady.
First George Will comes out as agnostic, now Krauthammer takes the Einsteinian view of a universe that’s too awesome to be a total accident but also too awesome to be explicable by any human conception of God.
“There was once a philosopher who said, ‘I don’t believe in God, but I fear him greatly.’ That’s about where I am,” the author of “Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics” said. ”I’ve had a fairly difficult and complicated notion of the deity. If I tried to explain it I would simply say — and this is by no means associating myself with the greatness of the man — but I would associate myself with Einstein’s conception of God, which was a recognition and an awe before the mystery of the order and beauty of the universe, which would imply that there is something very mysterious and very awesome — awe-inspiring — about the universe.”
allahpundit: atheist, anti-palin, homosexual marriage supporter.
Malkin made a huge mistake allowing him to stay.
To paraphrase G. Gordon Liddy, ‘one cannot comprehend the incomprehensible’.
Yet our little monkey brains do manage to see the order in things and the changes they undergo and to ponder what they mean. Moses and the prophets saw in the course of events a moral order, a path that men should follow for the sake of maintaining that order. Elsewhere men, such as Plato and Confucius did the same, but we believe that the insights of a small middle eastern people, surpassed all others in their grasp of the wisdom of things. That at a point in time, they encountered that wisdom face to face. And that face was the face of a human being.
If this quote of Krauthammer is correct [‘I don’t believe in God, but I fear him greatly.’] How can you fear something in this case Him that you don’t think exists?
We should not fall into the trap of having others tell us who the Conservative icons are, same as we should not let them define the conversation ever.
Tolerance is accepting people as they are not as you hope them to be. It is the actions or deeds that should be judged and critiqued.
Charles is a pro-abort.
I don’t consider him a conservative, and he’s not on some issues.
For instance he thinks the government should set the price of gasoline at $3.50 or so and reap the profits when its lower and subsidize it if it goes higher.
That sounds ludicrous to me.
RINO elitist Krauthammer vs. pro-God, pro-Palin, pro-gun Phil Robertson. An easy choice for me.
I enjoyed the FNC documentary on Krauthammer. It was informative.
Atheists are idiots. I guess Krauthammer isn’t interested in the classification.
This is completely off topic:
Did you know that people who believe in conspiracy theories tend to believe in most conspiracy theories? Someone who believes that the USA did not land men on the Moon will also believe that the twin towers were intentionally imploded by the USA. Believing in conspiracy theories is a personality disorder.
Disorders like this tend to exist in a spectrum of disorders. If they are severe enough to interfere with your life, they are considered clinical. If you get buy without too much trouble, they are called borderline.
I know so many people who live amongst atheists who have stopped believing in God, and have jumped right over and started believing in yoga, alternative medicine, and .... conspiracy theories.
It’s funny how that works, isn’t it? I too know people who don’t follow a religious faith - even look down upon it - but believe in a spirit world, mental telepathy, etc. As if, without one faith, there’s a vacuum that pulls in another. I used to be an atheist, too, but now I don’t believe atheism exists. Everyone believes in something, even if that something is nothing.
>> How can you fear something in this case Him that you don’t think exists?
He’s being metaphorical.
Many ‘doubters’ seem to think that God-fearing folks envision a bearded, superhuman figure high above the clouds. And this figure is not-believable. But the ‘doubters’ rarely venture into the more complex sense of connectivity God-fearing people experience.
Atheists are idiots primarily for the reason of denying the sense they will not experience. This of course has nothing to do with agnostics that don’t want to be bothered.
Disorders like this tend to exist in a spectrum of disorders. If they are severe enough to interfere with your life, they are considered clinical. If you get buy without too much trouble, they are called borderline.
I know so many people who live amongst atheists who have stopped believing in God, and have jumped right over and started believing in yoga, alternative medicine, and .... conspiracy theories.
LOL...
Did you know that people who make associations between talking-point political agendas and soviet-style pre-crime psychoanalytical generalizations are the most likely to kick small animals and die of alcoholism?
It's true.
Kewel.
Like how you put that; “we anthropomorphize God.”
Merry Christmas...
That’s just Ducky...
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Excellent and valid point. Its been said that when people stopped believing in God, they would believe anything. Solzhenitsyn famously wrote that of all the musings he heard as to why Russia had been subjected to such terrible misfortunes, he said the comments of old rural people made the most sense. “The people turned away from God.”
I often wonder if he is pro-euthanasia, as well, especially for handicapped persons.
Actually the G Man said - “God is infinite and we are finite. Therefore by definition we cannot understand Him.”
Just two cents from the kid in the corner at Ohr Kodesh...
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