The memories of self

[sacred_faith]

Sometimes I wonder if it is possible to reconcile faith with intelligent discourse. Whether the belief structures so integral with religiousity and spirituality can truely co-exist perfectly with a logical examination of those important foundations

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[runecircle]

Amen to your last sentence.

[malchick78]

This passage from James Baldwin (either from Giovanni's Room or Another Country) has helped me over the years, even before I rediscovered my faith; now it has a deeper resonance.

"Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it.

Either, or: it takes strength to remember, it takes another kind of strength to forget, it takes a hero to do both. People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget. Heroes are rare."