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Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XIII, by Regis Martin – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine, May 30, 2026

Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. …

 

“To continue living forever—endlessly—appears more like a curse than a gift.”

Part XIII in a series.

Regis MartinHere’s a take-home question for you. Are you at home in the world? I mean, entirely and completely at home? Are you, to put it in a boringly pedantic way, perfectly reconciled with your place of residence in a world bound by space and time, a world framed by the window of the five senses through which you perceive and receive it?

If you are not, and there is evidence to suggest that you are not alone—that growing numbers of disaffected people agree with you—what is it that prevents your being wholly at home in such a world? ….

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