The Divided Brain and the Sense of the Sacred
Though I am agnostic in regard to the Christian creeds I am aware of I’ve always felt connected to... View more
Hoping more Christians can become tolerant other approaches to the sacred
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Hoping more Christians can become tolerant other approaches to the sacred
I do wish more Christians were less strident in thinking they alone know the something more we all feel is there beyond our own best deliberative attempts to understand what we are and our place in the world. Isn’t it a little over the top to believe that miracles have established the historical moment when the something more decided to make first contact so as to put people on a path toward transcendence? Wouldn’t it always be the case that what is more would seek to guide what is dependent by imparting what is needed at that point in time? Should we assume that we will always need to believe in historical miracles and tales of afterlife alternatives in which what is transitory in us is locked in forever in order to maintain meaningful relations with what will always be more? I don’t think so. I don’t think believing this way is necessarily harmful until such time as the great traditions overlap and so many Christians seem to lack any way to understand and appreciate these different neighbors except as flawed and mistaken. Of course not all do. Barbara Brown Taylor who wrote Holy Envy was keenly aware of this flaw in the way so many practice her faith.
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