According to The Washington Post for May 21 (page B2, "On Faith"), the Anglican Bishop of Durham, England says yes. Heaven isn't where peole go when they die. Heaven is God's space while Earth is our space. Seems pretty clear so far. But he also says, "And the Bible makes it clear that the two overlap and interlock." So if the spaces overlap, why can't you get from Earth-space into Heaven-space when you die? Curious.
The rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles shows that no religion has a monopoy on epistemological confusion. He says that science discovers truths about physical reality, but it's a mistaken leap of logic to assume that physical reality is the only thing that really exists. So what else is there? Do things like justice, beauty, morality and the soul exist? Certainly; but only as concepts that help us describe the behavior of physical beings—people.
Nor is the East under-represented. A former Hindu monk says that nothing scientists and religionists believe can be known with absolute certainty. They both deal in beliefs, which are not proven certainties. Completely misses the crucial distinction. Scientific theories are hypotheses that have held up under empirical testing, a procedure that's completely missing from religious beliefs.
Posted by Dan Levine at 11:30 AM
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