@lukeburgis That second page, the cosmic elephant in the room. And yet, religious/spiritual culture is itself often no less estranged from experience or recognition of the unequivocally supernatural intelligence, power, presence and telos of the Living God, than its most cynical deprecators.
@johnmilbank3 His 2014 announcement doubting the existence of God? Keating: "The notion that God is absent is the fundamental illusion of the human condition." What is faith alive after all, other than an ontic threshold delineated by passing over from God-belief into God-experience itself.
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Excerpt from Facebook post: ...Faith, that is, not as a ‘label’ commonly referring to the forms, concepts and rationalizations of religious and materialist logic and, as such, caricatures of reality co-existent with, say, fallacies of certitude; rather, as an experiential threshold accessing the surge of a supra-personal mystery, intelligence, telos, power and portal. And this, in the context of, for example, Seyedd Hossein Nasr's: "The empirical epistemology which has dominated the horizon of Western man in the modern period, has succeeded in removing the concept of “reality” as a category pertaining to God. The consequence of this change in the very meaning of reality has been nothing less than catastrophic, reducing God and in fact all spiritual realms of being to the category of the abstract and finally to the unreal’, and quantum physicist, David Bohm: "Take a coherent approach to reality and reality takes a coherent approach to you"