If you believe the doctors nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians nothing is innocent if you believe the military nothing is safe.
People and especially theologians should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course science is technical in many respects but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.
I'm a scientist not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind the lawyer all the wickedness the theologian all the stupidity.
Of course nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
I am not a great theologian. I know there is a theological concept called invincible ignorance in which a strong enough faith binds you to any facts to the contrary.
I'm a scientist not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty. Revere and respect Gaia. Have trust in Gaia. But not faith.
The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian unless the latter too be lovers in disguise.
When I was seventeen I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.