09.01.10
Christian atheism?
It is important to consider this option, although not as portrayed here. We can conduct religion without god-obsessions (look at millennia of Indian religion), and in fact we have no knowledge of God. Worse, believers have trashed the god-idea with their false enthusiasm, and infantile prayer syndrome.
Christianity has made god an object of ‘faith’ with a duty to belief, which is harmful. It had a point once, now lost.
Note that Moslems express a higher unity beyond belief/disbelief: ‘there is no God, but….God’ there is something beyond the duality of belief/disbelief.
The point has been entirely lost, to say the least. But the declaration is clear: there is not god, but….
So Christain atheism, which needn’t be atheism at all, could help to repair the confusion, and seek a religion that helps people without enforcing authoritarian god dogmas.
Please note that the ‘son of god’ symbology (which I refuse personally, but is of historical interest, and still sensible in Hegel’s version) meant that ‘god was untterly unknown’, only via a ‘god man’ could the high and the low meet. Every guru in India on every street corner has said as much.
There are any number of problems with this, but is shows what the Christian idiocy syndrome has done to make their religion something people must abandon. A Christian need not slobber on the god name.