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March 28, 2011

Lament has its spiritual uses, as recent world events weigh heavily on our souls.

                                              PSALM 77
                    “I cry aloud to God,
                        aloud to God, that he may hear me.

January 27, 2011

Technological Fundamentalism

The Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico shows how seriously bad things happen when humans play God. Our technology has outstripped our ability to manage the world we've created.

If humans were smart, we would bet on our ignorance.

That advice comes early in the Hebrew Bible. Adam and Eve’s banishment in chapters two and three of Genesis can be read as a warning that hubris is our tragic flaw. In the garden, God told them they could eat freely of every tree but the tree of knowledge of good and evil. This need not be understood as a command that people must stay stupid, but only that we resist the temptation to believe that we are godlike and can competently manipulate the complexity of the world.