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IFISEEUS
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Better authentic mammon than a bogus god. -- Louis MacNeice Page is under construction God is Dead Movement If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him. -- James Baldwin One of the most significant developments in the last 1900 years of Christianity is the "God is dead" movement, which is being given impetus by some of the very most sensible, honest, critically thinking and courageous (this does not mean that they have not been severely hampered by THE PROBLEM) theologians of our time. Nietszche is generally given credit for the initial aspects and thinking and coin of the phrase. What is meant by the "God is dead" terminology is not that HE really expired somewhere sometime but that any relevancy or real meaning is dead in respect to the old traditional concepts of God in Christianity. vapid, egregious insipid, inconsistent tele-evangelists, faith-healers and religious hucksters, the glib banal spiel of positive thinkers, psycho-religio-smoothies "God is dead." Well, he should be dead, deservedly dead. What we are talking about here of course is the God of the three great Monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. |
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