A RELIGIOUS VIEW OF WHY WE ARE HERE
On 23 September 2020 I presented the scientific view of why we are here . Today, from the religious perspective. One of Paul Gauguin's most famous paintings is, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are we Going? At the heart of the issue is the age-old question, what is the meaning of life? Read this Wikipedia summary, where, after traipsing through all of history with the most eminent philosophers of their day, a passage appears: In Monty Python's The Meaning of Life , there are several allusions to the meaning of life. At the end of the film, a character played by Michael Palin is handed an envelope containing "the meaning of life", which she opens and reads out to the audience: "Well, it's nothing very special. Uh, try to be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try to live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations." [213] [214] [215] Good an expla...