The Second Coming
By William Butler Yeats
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned...
Today’s Bible Study discussion from Bible Gateway Plus is about the Tower of Babel passage in Genesis 11:1-9. The discussion is interesting in itself but what really interested me was that several of the linked study resources talked about the Babylonian ziggurats as intended to be pathways for...
Raised Roman Catholic but nothing formal now. I still like many of the things Jesus is said to have said as pretty good guidelines for living. OTOH I remain agnostic on the divinity of Jesus, the existence of the supernatural in general and so forth. Paul strikes me as a lot of double talk, but...