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You say "some things are hard to see, like the image of God that permeates much of Christianity. We need a new God."
I say that all depends on just who (which group) is doing the "seeing!" The Atheists, for instance, apparently have no problem at all in seeing " the image of God that permeates much of Christianity." It is a manmade image beset with errors and flawed and contradictory doctrines, requiring reliance on trumped up "miracles" of its writers and the entirely too-human attributes such as anger and revenge of this "God made in our own image!" It is the "Christians" who have the most difficulty in this perception!
"We need a new God." Yes, precisely! And we are getting one, slowly, every time the world advances in technological, scientific, and human enlightenment! Other groups, including Christians, have similar difficulty in perceiving this; the pace is so slow!
In general, to mention a few, the Earth is no longer viewed by the majority of Christians as being flat and the center of the universe; we no longer banish our scientists for "heretical" views; women and all races are more and more respected and treated as equals, as they should be; we no longer burn witches at the stake and view this as a service to God; more and more people have the freedom of assembly and speech. We are, at least in the more enlightened parts of the world, changing (evolving) our image of the True God. Painfully, slowly, the "new God (I AM)" is coming into clearer focus.
Thank you, as usual, for your insightful comments!
posted by
GEPRUITT
on September 11, 2006 at 2:04 PM
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don't know
believers see god
atheists don't see god
agnostics don't know -- are not sure -- hanging between the two --
still it's a matter of what you see and don't see.
some things are hard to see
like the image of god that permeates much of Christianity.
we need a new god.
posted by
Xeno-x
on September 11, 2006 at 7:10 AM
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