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A Spiritual Copernican Revolution
I have been reading Brian Robertson’s “Christian Mystics” web site and now his blog since the early 1990s. He has been an inspiration and I urge you to visit his blog.
Jun 9th, 2009, copyright © by Brian Robertson
Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. His epochal book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), published in 1543 just before he died, is often regarded as the starting point of modern astronomy and the defining epiphany that began the Scientific Revolution. His heliocentric model, with the sun at the center of the universe, demonstrated that the observed motions of celestial objects can be explained without putting the Earth at rest in the center of the universe. His work stimulated further scientific investigations, becoming a landmark in the history of modern science that is now often referred to as the Copernican Revolution.
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What I would like to suggest is that it is time, in Christianity, for a kind of Copernican Revolution that, curiously enough, brings us closer to the spirituality of Jesus. (more…)
Drug Use
It probably would be better if we could put a lid on drug use, same with nicotine, and alcohol. This is, however a real Pandora’s Box that we’ve opened and it will be impossible to ever stuff it back in and close the lid. Imagine doing away with alcohol. Every fourth house in the nation would have a still and beer fermenting in the closet.
People like to get high and they will get high. And since nothing will stop people from gettin high, the next best thing is to reduce the harm done by illegal drug use. Legalize, control potency and purity, just like for alcohol users. Tax it and make it available through licensed businesses, just like alcohol.
It is already illegal to drive while high, just like alcohol. Make treatment available for those who get sick, just like alcohol and nicotine. We have millions of young men and women in prison because of using, buying, distributing, and manufacturing, illegal drugs, many of which are less harmful than legal nicotine and alcohol. (more…)
