Reflections on Being, Love and Truth
Emerson once said, "Foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" or something like that. If you know the context of this passage, you know why he wasn't particularly liked by his academic colleagues. In remembering the arrogant bastards I have known in my former ecclesiastical experience, I know, all too well, the critical arrows that are shot out of their mouths that say, "this is inconsistent with what you said earlier" delighting in the knight's fork of their polemics--to save the king you lose the queen and those are the systematic rules of the game--but in the end, they are out to win a game, I think, and to not find Truth if Truth, or God, or the Ultimate Macguffin if it exists at all. In fact, they think they have the corner on the best view of the Truth there is, all neatly defined, systematized, and organized in the great card catalogue of scriptures, dead fathers, theologians, thousands of years of traditions, tomes, and councils. The...