“From Faith to Reason” was the title of my first year collegiate Comparative Literature course. We started with Dante’s Inferno and ended with Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. The message was clear; Western civilization used to be based on Faith, but then came the Enlightenment and now Faith is Dead, Long Live Reason. Fortunately, the teacher for the course was obviously bored and lousy, so I didn’t really absorb the lesson. Over the years I have seen that story line repeated innumerable times. … [Read more...] about What Has Reason to do with Faith?
Measuring out my life with coffee spoons ...and books
