Peripatetics: The Art of Walking

Peripatetics: The Art of Walking

  
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    Saturday, November 13, 2004

    ...and I've been putting in quotes from stuff I'm reading to get a little discourse going on-line (which has worked somewhat, too...so props to all you who commented!). Here's the final one before we get back to Bible study next week, it's by Donald Miller from his book "Searching for God Knows What":

    "If I weren't a Christian, and I kept seeing Christian leaders on television more concerned with money, fame, and power rather than with grace, love and social justice, I wouldn't want to believe in God at all. I really wouldn't. The whole thing would make me want to walk away from religion altogether, because, like I was saying about Santa Claus, their god must be an idiot to see the world in such a one-sided way. The god who cares so much about getting rich must not have treasures stored up in heaven, and the god so concerned about getting even must not have very much patience, and the god who cares so much about the West must really hate the rest of the world, and that doesn't sound like a very good god to me. The televangelist can have him for all I care.

    You know, the real problem with God-imposters is that they worship a very small god, a god who exists simply to validate their identities. This god falls apart as soon as you touch him, as soon as you start asking very basic questions about the sanctity of all human life, the failure of combat mentality, and the lustful love of power."

    I guess the direction I'd like to take for our comments is this one: How do we make our God small in our day-to-day lives? How do we treat Him in a one-sided manner like we do Santa Claus?

    Brent 6:16 AM
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    God is not a person, a force maybe , that lives in each living soul, if we were strong enough to realise this then we can all adopt a universal religion.Harness the powers within, for the betterment of mankind and then we can say we have evolved.Granted most men need the stuctures of religion to be and live as " better human beings " but really the powers all lie within each one of us...
    posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 7:30 AM
     
    hey, nice star wars reference. could you maybe go into more detail on what the powers within are?
    posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 6:58 PM
     
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