Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Evil and moral indifference


I'm reading Esther Lightcap Meek's book "Longing to Know" at the moment. It's an interesting book and essentially an explanation of the way that the epistemological ideas of Hungarian philosopher Michael Polanyi coincide and work with Christian epistemology - according to Meek (I've yet to be convinced that she's right, but I haven't finished the book yet!).

Yesterday I read this:

This horror [9/11] is not one that denies God’s existence or the reality of good. That will happen only if we ever come to view such an event as good or of indifferent moral value, if we were to view it and feel no moral outrage. Human outrage at evil confirms God’s reality, for there is no other way to account for the passion we feel. This is profoundly rational.

Integration, Not Deduction – pg.79

God bless.

Dear Freedom

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