Recently we attended a catholic funeral of a friend. For me the surroundings seemed so alien. The liturgy was spoken and the responses made, robot like, in a sing-song voice and, later at the crematorium, we got a decade of Hail Marys. Afterwards one of our (non-catholic) group queried how could these people, in all good conscience, go through this seemingly empty ritual again and again without questioning it? And I wondered to myself if non-believers would likewise query as vain repetition our own church services.
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| Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Drogheda |
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| mystical mural behind the altar |
Strange how the strong conviction on which one person's life is built can be another person's anathema.
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| the skull belonging to MRD |
They've just discovered MRD,
a nearly complete 3.8-million-year-old skull in Ethiopia that has apparently changed views about human evolution. Strange how scientists allow such a paradigm shift and yet pooh pooh doubts expressed by those of lesser persuasions. Asked if this find was a "missing link" the scientist admitted "there are many links in the chain of human evolution and most if not nearly all of them are still missing". Is all of this more or less tenuous than belief in catholic transubstantiation? Or than in what you or I believe?
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