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  Which is it? Is the problem that Hawking expressed a view on the existence of God based on science AT ALL (as Barron says late in this article), or that the view expressed was an atheistic one (as the title suggests)? Had Hawking written a book about how science suggests the existence of God, would Barron (and others) ...have gotten so upset and insisted “Since the true God is not a being alongside other beings, not one thing in the universe among many, he is not circumscribable within a scientific frame of understanding. He should not, therefore, even in principle, be either affirmed or denied from a purely scientific perspective”? I haven’t read Hawking’s book (and it’s not clear that Barron has either) but perhaps it is actually a helpful one for doing away with the idea that God is just another being in the universe: Hawking is helping to show that the “God of the gaps” is an idol.
  


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And here is a bulletin insert on the church’s teaching on labor, along with suggestions for action, from the peace and justice committee at St. Nicholas Parish in Evanston, IL.

The u.s. should, by the way, change Labor Day to May 1.

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What we’re really talking about, I think, is a certain kind of moral clarity and a certain kind of moral courage, and a certain kind of genuine moral compassion. And it comes from a variety of different traditions, so that we don’t want to get too obscure in our discourse, and not really just put on the table something that’s very simple. How deep is your love? What is the quality of your service to others? Are you concerned about those on the margins, or do we define a catastrophe only when it relates to investment bankers and Wall Street elites, as opposed to the precious children in chocolate cities? Or white children in Appalachia? Or red children in Navajo reservations? What are we going to do? What are we willing to risk? What costs are we willing to actually undergo? You can’t be a Christian, if you’re not willing to pick up your cross. And, in the end, be crucified on it. That’s the bottom line. The rest of it just sounding brass and tinkling symbols. How deep is your love?

Cornel West in conversation with Bill Moyers, Serene Jones, and Gary Dorrien, available here.