Comments on: Beauty Wounds Us http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/09/27/beauty-wounds-us/ A First Things Blog Sat, 25 May 2013 03:12:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Stephen http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/09/27/beauty-wounds-us/comment-page-1/#comment-75778 Stephen Fri, 28 Sep 2012 01:06:27 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=48548#comment-75778 Should that not be “Beauty is one of the few things in the world that DOES not lead to doubt about God” ? Correct English is beautiful too and does not lead to doubt about God. I’m rite about this ain’t i?

]]> By: andrew http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/09/27/beauty-wounds-us/comment-page-1/#comment-75748 andrew Thu, 27 Sep 2012 19:08:27 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=48548#comment-75748 call me cynical, but beauty does not always lead to contemplation…. i was standing one day in front of the cathedral of notre dame in paris. along came a woman with a camera and without even looking at the cathedral, proceeded to ask me if i could take a picture of her with the cathedral in the background.

i took the picture and handed the camera back. she then walked away toward the subway stop.

it seems to me more and more of us are “men without chests,” to use c. s. lewis’ phrase.

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