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Originally Posted by Textcritic
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One of my long term goals is to write a "theology", but under a rather preposterous caveat: that theology is useless. An "anti-theology" or an "a-theology" if you will. For if I am to understand my relationship with the natural world, there really leaves no room for God. I can't ever hope to really gain or impart any sort of special "knowledge" about God, and the moment I attempt to communicate any sort of rational basis for revelation, it becomes nonsense. I believe that the future of theology is no theology at all. Not that I will ever abandon a belief in God, I don't think. Only that what matters is natural. I will continue to "worship" God; to "seek" God; to "communicate" to (with?) God, under the pretext that I don't pretend to understand him(?) in the slightest. But also that I believe what is most important is not God—and from what I've "glimpsed" in my own journey of faith, I think that I can confidently say that he/she/it would agree with me—rather, it is humanity. A useful theology—which is no theology at all because it cannot tell us anything meaningful about God—is really a treatise on the hope of humanity in the real world. It may maintain a belief in god without insisting upon his presence or interaction.
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This "almost" sounds spiritual.
In response to both you and photon. Our minds are programmed and hard wired from youth. Part of that programming is the entire theology question, or non-question. As we move along in life we either fully accept this choice, using one or more of Daniel Dennett's eight plausible reasons <see previous post #208>, or we simply begin to question the theories and toss out anything that doesn't make sense. (This usually takes years). My thoughts were typical to both you and photon during these years of question and dismissal...I continued to believe that if the God of the Bible was false; there must be something else. Faith in "something" is ingrained into our systems.
I think that after awhile you begin to understand that the faith we put into any religion/spirituality is misdirected, and you begin to transfer that faith into yourself first, then your fellow human. You see others for what they are, not for their beliefs. Its clarity in its simplest forms.
That redirection of faith is where both of you are at right now.
Wow what a babble LOL
