"A court of law will hear and accept as evidence at trial testimony to any perception through any of the five senses: to what was heard, seen, tasted, touched or felt, or smelt by the witness. But it will decline testimony of any spiritual perception. In a deposition, it is labelled as irrelevant to the cause. But, to the witness, it is of the greatest relevance to the cause. And to the spiritually imbued, it is supremely relevant to his or her spiritual connection. Yet, the law passes it over, in the name of Justice, thus defying logic."
Dang, never thought of that! Brilliant observation.
The Belgian Criminal Pursuits Code of 1808 makes repeated reference to the term: de waarheid aan de dag brengen - to bring to light the truth.
There is a jurisprudential argument that the truth is the last thing a court seeks (and I don't mean that in the sense of the Nicolson/Cruise confrontation in A Few Good Men). Courts are cognisant of the difficulty in establishing truth, so they satisfy themselves with "enough" truth.
However, if "the aim of a criminal prosecution is to bring to light the truth", whilst one might inscribe that over the portals of every court of law in the land, one might also be tempted to inscribe similar words over the portals of our places of worship.
The irony rests in the fact that the method pursued in the court of law would entail excluding anything for which no corroborated evidence could be adduced, whilst the method pursued in the place of worship would to a large extent exclude anything for which corroborated evidence can be adduced.
Take a horse race. The winner is the first mounted horse to pass the finishing post. But, if the first are to be last and the last first, who wins horse races in Heaven? Part of the secret to finding God is precisely to look for Him in those places where we would least expect to find Him, and to eschew the legal methods by which he could be proved, since, by those methods, He simply cannot be proved. That is our mortal limitation, and we cannot recognise it as such.
"A court of law will hear and accept as evidence at trial testimony to any perception through any of the five senses: to what was heard, seen, tasted, touched or felt, or smelt by the witness. But it will decline testimony of any spiritual perception. In a deposition, it is labelled as irrelevant to the cause. But, to the witness, it is of the greatest relevance to the cause. And to the spiritually imbued, it is supremely relevant to his or her spiritual connection. Yet, the law passes it over, in the name of Justice, thus defying logic."
Dang, never thought of that! Brilliant observation.
The Belgian Criminal Pursuits Code of 1808 makes repeated reference to the term: de waarheid aan de dag brengen - to bring to light the truth.
There is a jurisprudential argument that the truth is the last thing a court seeks (and I don't mean that in the sense of the Nicolson/Cruise confrontation in A Few Good Men). Courts are cognisant of the difficulty in establishing truth, so they satisfy themselves with "enough" truth.
However, if "the aim of a criminal prosecution is to bring to light the truth", whilst one might inscribe that over the portals of every court of law in the land, one might also be tempted to inscribe similar words over the portals of our places of worship.
The irony rests in the fact that the method pursued in the court of law would entail excluding anything for which no corroborated evidence could be adduced, whilst the method pursued in the place of worship would to a large extent exclude anything for which corroborated evidence can be adduced.
Take a horse race. The winner is the first mounted horse to pass the finishing post. But, if the first are to be last and the last first, who wins horse races in Heaven? Part of the secret to finding God is precisely to look for Him in those places where we would least expect to find Him, and to eschew the legal methods by which he could be proved, since, by those methods, He simply cannot be proved. That is our mortal limitation, and we cannot recognise it as such.