There Is No God, But God

There’s a word “bibliolatry,” which means “worship of the Bible.”  Sometimes the Bible can be your God, if you consider it to be too sacred, not realizing the human context in which it came from.
…  At a personal level, I consider that my main goal in life is to do what God wants me to do, so I try to understand what God wants me to do.  And I believe that by understanding the Bible I get very good clues about this;  in other words, that’s what the connection with God is for me.  But I don’t treat the Bible as a magical thing, as something for which I might just close my eyes, fall down on my knees, and say “I’m going to repeat these blessed words over and over.”
—    Donald E. Knuth
From his book:  “Things A Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About“
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2021	A Direct Relationship
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2020	One Person’s Roses…
2019	In The Long-Run
2018	#NeverAgain
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2017	Talent Hates To Move
2016	Looking To November
2015	It Isn’t The End
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2014	Friends
2013	Learning Bitter
2012	Remembrance, Minstrels & Going Off To War
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2011	There Is No God, But God
2010	Another Running Book…

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