Above: the sign outside the Church of All Nations in the Garden of Gethsemane. Whether it's a directive aimed at tour group guides or a broader statement about the relation between reason and religion I'll leave up to you.
For more on the latter theme, check out A Religious Case Against Belief, reviewed by Pico Iyer in the 6/26/2008 New York Review of Books.
An interesting study in cross-generational rhetorical contrast: A Religious Case, written by a professor emeritus, makes the case that belief has corrupted religion. Conversely, Gen-X filmmaker Kevin Smith's cult film Dogma argues that religion has corrupted belief.
Sign of the times
By Jeff Trexler on June 14, 2008 12:39 AM
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