Clearly, to aspire to be God is sin; to desire to be like God is filial love and devotion.

--The God who Weeps

Why faith?

The call to faith, in this light, is not some test of a coy god, waiting to see if we "get it right."  It is the only summons, issued under the only conditions, which can allow us fully to reveal who we are, what we most love, and what we most devoutly desire.  Without constraint, without any form of mental compulsion, the act of belief becomes the freest possible projection of what resides in out hearts.

--The God who Weeps

I love this grown-up faith.  Refreshed honest faith is invigorating.

death by facebook (or wii for me)

We are, as reflective  thinking, pondering seekers, much like the proverbial ass of Buridan.  The Beast in the parable starves to death because he is faced with two equally desirable and equally accessible piles of hay.

--The God who Weeps

I think this neutrality is death by escapism.  Escapism is very powerful and often desirable, but it is a beast that when you feed it, it become larger and more ravishingly hungry. 

Faith is natural

What ever sense we make of this world, whatever value we place upon our lives and relationships, whatever meaning we ultimately give to our joys and agonies, must necessarily be a gesture of faith....James Stephen noted that "in nearly all the important transactions in this life, indeed in all transactions whatever which have relation to the future, we have to take a leap in the dark,...to act upon very imperfect evidence..."

---The God Who Weeps

Why the Tao?

Whether by design or by chance, we find ourselves in a universe filled with mystery.  No picture ever painted fulled explains the cast landscape of human experience.  Science doesn't try to, and religion often fails. But we humans are meaning-making machines.  We are complex creatures of logic and superstition, who crave both clarity and wonder.

     -The God Who Weeps, by Terryle and Fiona Givens