Views on Christianity as old as Christianity itself

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Written by Staff Reporter

Wednesday, 03 October 2007

Dear Editor,

Paul Grealish views on Christianity are as old as Christianity. In relatively recent times Edward Gibbon, renowned author of ‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’, captured the ardent anti-Christian spirit in his dismissal of Chartres Cathedral: ‘I paused only to dart a contemptuous look at the ugly pile of superstition and passed on.’ Interestingly, the Grealish & Gibbon Ltd. world-view can be found in a rare book of enlightenment, modestly entitled ‘On Nothing’. In its preface we read:

"There is in nothing something so majestic and so high that it is a fascination and spell to regard it. Is it not that which Mankind, after the great effort of life, at last attains, and that which alone can satisfy Mankind’s desire? Is it not that which is the end of so many generations of analysis, the final word of philosophy, and the goal of the search for reality? Is it not the very matter of our modern creed in which the great spirits of our time repose, and is it not, as it were, the culmination of their intelligence?”

Paul Mohr,
Corrandulla.