Spiritual inquiry has always been the realm of religion, which encourages us to have a blind faith in its teachings, even when they make little logical sense. – Edmond Kirsch.
Fugitives were predictable the first hour after escape. They always needed the same thing. Travel. Lodging. Cash. The Holy Trinity.
By way of fairy tales, this primeval battle of “good vs. evil” is ingrained into us as children through our stories: Merlin vs. Morgan le Fay, Saint George vs. the Dragon, David vs. Goliath, Snow White vs. the Witch, and even Luke Skywalker battling Darth Vader.
Science is the antithesis of faith,” Kirsch continued. “Science, by definition, is the attempt to find physical proof for that which is unknown or not yet defined, and to reject superstition and misperception in favor of observable facts. When science offers an answer, that answer is universal. Humans do not go to war over it; they rally around it.
We’re on a Grail quest, Sophie. Who better to help us than a knight?
I don’t care if he’s the prince,” she fired back.
But faith by its very definition, requires placing your trust in something that unseeable and indefinable, accepting something of which there exists no empirical evidence. And so, understandably, we all end up placing our faith in different things because if there is no universal truth. – Edmond Kirsch.
The truth will be twisted, Langdon knew. As it always is with the Masons.
FACT: In 1991, a document was locked in the safe of the director of the CIA. The document is still there today. Its cryptic text includes references to an ancient portal and an unknown location underground. The document also contains the phrase “It’s buried out there somewhere.
Michelangelo is the gold standard,” Winston said with a chuckle, “brilliantly posing David in an effeminate contrapposto, his limp wrist casually holding a flaccid slingshot, conveying a feminine vulnerability. And yet David’s eyes radiate a lethal determination, his tendons and veins bulging in anticipation of killing Goliath. The work is simultaneously delicate.
Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects.
Robert Langdon stood frozen in the doorway of the National Statuary Hall and studied the startling scene before him.
Letter to a Christian Nation.
Real world signore. You’re in it tonight.
Michael,” she said, her voice raspy. “It’s time to let go.” “I can’t.” Tolland’s eyes welled. “You’re a survivor,” Celia said. “You have to be. Promise me you’ll find another love.” “I’ll never want another.” Tolland meant it. “You’ll have.
Genius accepts genius unconditionally. -Anonymous.
Religious communities cooperate better than nonreligious communities and therefore flourish more readily. This is a scientific fact!
The mind of had the ability to alter the state of matter itself, and, more important, the mind had the power to encourage the physical world to move in a specific direction.
I can’t wait for this to come out in October!
Atheism is simply an admission of the obvious.