Sunday, June 12, 2022

Brain Damage or Celibacy?


Felipe Fernandez-Armesto:

“Even when Christianity began to become fashionable among the well educated and to capture the allegiance of states and empires, Christians' strong advocacy of peace and celibacy ought, by rights, to have doomed them to defeat or self-extinction. So do not dismiss this religion because most of it is skin-deep. Its very survival is surprising; its spread - however superficial - is startling: miraculous, some would say.”
“I’m weighing the risk of brain damage against a life of celibacy.”  

Artist: Mike Twohy, The New Yorker, June 2015

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