I much prefer the Understanding of Sacred Art and its relation to human culture communicated via these references. By an artist who knew precisely and exactly what he was communicating.
http://www.aboutadidam.org/testimonials/art_architecture/index.html
http://www.daplastique.com/reviews/lisa_streitfeld.html
On Sacred Music
http://www.adidaupclose.org/music/index.html

Also the understanding of the relation between E=MC2 or quantum reality and the human situation as described in this interesting book.
http://www.artandphysics.com

An essay on Quantum Reality
http://www.dabase.org/Reality_Itself_Is_Not_In_The_Middle.htm

On Adam and Eve in the garden of Indestructible Conscious Light
http://www.beezone.com/adidajesus/adamnervoussystemeveflesh.html

A truth always has an explanation, even that which we humans recognize as the internal ring of truth!
Experienced at a very deep level as goosebumps or very pleasant shivers up and down the spine, when we hear profoundly beautiful music, see an jaw-dropping scene of exquisite beauty, or hear a foundational truth for the very first time, even one that flies in the face of a lifetime of indoctrination!
[Every time I hear a new born baby cry, or touch a leaf, or see the sky, then I know why , I believe.]
After that, as always, beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, as is art?
Rhrosty.

What a load of piffle!

"But I am sure that the gospel is a great consolation; that the cross of Christ is the pivotal event in history from which flows, if not the immediate defeat of evil and death, for those who live in the time between the times, the promise that evil will not finally win."

But as I understand it, Peter, you believe -- or pretend to believe -- that God has no reality and hence no power to make promises about the defeat of evil or anything else. He has no capacity to do anything, and certainly could not have sent his son to earth, given him the power to do miracles, and caused (or prevented) his persecution and death. Your God is a non-starter. He has been scratched at the starting post. Any 'promises' he might make or be imagined to make are without substance, just as he is.

If you're going to claim that nothing can be said about God, then that applies to you as well as us. Your so-called 'consolation' is a miserable pathetic sham.

In all my years of reading on the internet, I do not think I have encountered such a lot of hogwash and faux intellectual rubbish such as this. Obviously the writer, a religious believer, has and is entitled to his beliefs in superstition, but the article
defies all reason and commonsense.

Dear Peter,

I am not a Christian, but long before I even knew much about Christianity, in my darkest hours I found consolation in Handel's Messiah.

At the time I could not understand the words, and today when I do understand them I only agree with some, yet it doesn't matter, disagreeing with certain claims is not an obstacle to inspiration and the specific narrative is secondary to the general sense that good will triumph over evil, that the weak will triumph over the strong and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together - for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it. Amen!