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Description: Thomas Talbott, Professor of Philosophy at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, provides a selection of his writings.
Tom's Religion and Theology Page "Awesome" is now an overused cliche, but this picture, taken by the Hubble telescope and showing the actual birth of a star, is truly awe-inspiring. If you don't believe this, then just click on the picture for a full-screen view. But what, you may ask, does such a picture have to do with religion? Well, I doubt that I have ever had a profoundly religious experience while sitting in church, which in earlier years I attended with a fair degree of regularity. Indeed, even in those earlier years, I tended to bide my time in church either formulating arguments against the preacher's proclamation or recoiling from the persistent appeal to fear and guilt (which I inevitably encountered in the particular churches that I attended). I have found, therefore, that I tend to feel much more reverent, and much closer to the mystical Source of all that is, when wandering the back country, or when viewing pictures such as this one.
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