PALEY'S THEOLOGY.

Max Weber thought that was peculiarly Protestant.

The secret of Hegel's dialectic lies ultimately in this alone, that it negates theology through philosophy in order then to negate philosophy through theology.

This attitude, the Protestant work ethic, still influences Americans today.

But it so happened he was speaking in a Protestant Church.

Northern Ireland, Catholic, Protestant, children's choir and ended with Bono in Dublin

It isn't a time for explanation, or preaching, or theology it's a time for tears.

And that Copernican revolution continues today to influence science and philosophy and technology and theology.

We know this because today the work ethic is no longer a Protestant, Western phenomenon.

The theology was perfect, the timing unquestionable, and the answer as honest as a sinner could get.

We saw scientific revolutions, the Protestant Reformation, constitutional democracies possible where they had not been possible before.

Science had been all interlocked with theology, and philosophy, and and and mathematics, which is really not science.

Instead, what we got was Martin Luther's 95 Theses, the Protestant Reformation, and, you know, the Thirty Years' War.

Above the knowledge threshold is where you run into subjects like psychology, philosophy, theology, metaphysics, and no surprise, creating your personal reality.

When the early Protestant immigrants came to this country, they brought the idea that work was the way to God and heaven.

From 1859, Protestant missionaries from America started to arrive, and the Catholic and Russian Orthodox churches also became actively involved in missionary work.

And we thought, sustainability has grown into being this sort of neo Protestant idea that it has to hurt in order to do good.

When you are brought up as a Catholic, you think that if you ever set foot in a Protestant Church, you'll be struck dead at the threshold.

But I'll tell you what happened to me in Ireland during the Troubles, 10 years ago, and I was working with some Catholic and Protestant kids on conflict resolution.

The separation theology that humanity has established through the years has created a separation cosmology, that is a cosmological way of looking at things that says everything is severed from everything else.

And it's not based on theology or philosophy, it's in the study of the mind, across all these spheres of research, from neuroscience to the cognitive scientists, behavioral economists, psychologists, sociology, we're developing a revolution in consciousness.

It is remarkable that some of the most critical concepts of Muslim religious terminology have now become part of the international language of current affairs. Questions drawn from Islamic theology are discussed freely by the world public, engaging specialists and non specialists, Muslims and non Muslims.

If someone came to my door and I was hearing Catholic theology and dogma for the very first time, and they said, We believe that God impregnated a very young girl without the use of intercourse, and the fact that she was a virgin is maniacally important to us.