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| I Can Get It For You Wholesale The problem with protestant theology is that it works too well - it’s too efficient; so efficient, in fact, it’s almost lazy. Such a wholesale, zero-sum sanctification it offers; one which suffers no gradation, no paradox, no mystery, and which therefore cannot appreciate, much less celebrate these ineluctable realities of the universal human experience. Protestant theology, it seems to me, struggles little or not at all to account for the true implications of the human consciousness here on earth. Deeply culture bound, it merely skips the hard parts, the hard work, and goes straight to the beach. God said to not be a part of the world; he didn’t say turn your theological back on it. |
| From a Christian perspective, I wonder what God’s purpose could be in having Islam, via Mohammad, come into being 500+ years after Jesus. Why, more than 500 years after Jesus - and the New (Final?) Covenant - would He allow another major world religion come into being, one that might soon have more followers world-wide than Christianity itself? |
| It’s troubling that the tacit foundation of most people’s understanding of their relationship with God, vis-a-vis the beliefs of others, is essentially this: “I don’t know what they (Hindus, Muslims, Methodists, Mormons, etc-Whoever) believe, I just know it’s wrong.” How very like us to presume the insufficiency of something we do not know. And perhaps we are all the more likely to presume and even need to assume the inadequacy of others' beliefs merely because we do not want to understand them. |
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