Article No. 2092
Written by London swaminathan
Date : 22 August 2015
Time uploaded in London :– 15-40
While Raphael was engaged in painting his celebrated frescoes, he was visited by two cardinals who began to criticize his work, and found fault without understanding it.
“The Apostle Paul had too red a face,” said one.
“He blushes to see whose hands the church has fallen,” answered the angry artist.
Julian Huxley on Theologian and Philosopher
Julian Huxley tells this: “I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian. The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat – which was not there.
“That may be,” said the philosopher, “but a theologian would have found it.”
Chief Justice Melville Fuller on Ignorance
Shortly before his death Chief Justice Melville Fuller presided at a church conference. During the progress of a heated debate a member arose and began a tirade against universities and education, thanking God that he had never been corrupted by contact with a college.
“Do I understand the speaker thanks God for his ignorance?” interrupted the Chief Justice.
“Well, yes”, was the answer. ”You can put it that way if you wish”
“All I can say then,” Said the Chief Justice, “is that the member has a great deal to thank God for.”
Deist and Dentist!
At a gathering in London, where a furious theological controversy occurred, Dean Swift lost his temper and boisterously asked a stranger, who sat next to him: “On which side, sir, are you? Are you an atheist or a Deist?”
“Oh, neither, Sir”, was the immediate reply;
“I am a dentist.”
Theologian Leonard Bacon
The theologian Leonard Bacon, was present at a religious conference. He had made a certain statement on the floor, whereupon a member, opposed to his views, burst forth with the exclamation, “Why, I never heard such a thing in all my life.”
“Mr. Moderator,” appealed Bacon, “I cannot allow my opponent’s ignorance, however vast, to prejudice my knowledge, however small.”
John Selden and Salt Fish
When the learned John Selden was a member of the Assembly of the Divines at the Westminster he delighted to puzzle them by curious quibbles. Once they were gravely engaged in determining the exact distance between Jericho and Jerusalem; and one of them, to prove it could not be great, observed, “That fish were carried from one place to other.” At which the resourceful Dr.Selden observed: “Perhaps it was salt fish?” this again threw the assembly into confusion.
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