Resonant Reading (Saturday) – How God acts – Voltaire

Facilitators use a light hand, posting the reading in the chat and calling on whoever’s Zoom hand is up. Suggestions for readings come from group members, who also take turns facilitating, if they want to try that role.
“Someone asked Newton one day why he walked when he wanted to, and how his arm and his hand moved at his will. He answered manfully that he had no idea. “But at least,” his interlocutor said to him, “you who understand so well the gravitation of the planets will tell me why they turn in one direction rather than in another!” And he again confessed that he had no idea. […]
Ruthlessly trenchant fellow, wordy pedagogue, meddlesome theorist, you seek the limits of your mind. They are at the end of your nose.”“The theist is a man firmly persuaded of the existence of a Supreme Being as good as He is powerful, who has formed all beings with extension, vegetating, sentient and reflecting; who perpetuates their species, who punishes crimes without cruelty, and rewards virtuous actions with kindness.The theist does not know how God punishes, how he protects, how he pardons, for he is not reckless enough to flatter himself that he knows how God acts, but he knows that God acts and that He is just.”
—-VoltaireNote: Probably no Sacred Texts on Saturday 10/26
Drew and Ed have plans for Saturday 10/26 that conflict with Sacred Texts. If anyone else would like to lead that day, they would be most welcome. Otherwise, our regular Zoom conversation will not happen on 10/26.
—Ed & Drew
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