Taking a sip of something worth knowing?!
18 April 2010
The gospel according to H.L. Mencken:
“THEOLOGY—An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.”
Amusing. I do recognize the limits of describing the limitless and of finite expressions of the infinite. As do most theologians. But we have to start somewhere.
Can water quench thirst without having to drink up the ocean?
Can air breath in life without having to inhale the sky?
Can ground be stood on without having to move the continent?
For some the water has gone rancid, the air has become stale and the ground has become shifting sand. For them drinking, breathing and standing has lost its wonder and so they sit in their ivory towers and assume that their witty cliches will carry the day. For them these things are not worth doing.
For most of us, knowing a little of the unknown is worth knowing.
