Sublime

Is the Problem Lack of Information? But perhaps the problem is supposed to be that a loving God wouldn’t send people to hell because they were uninformed or misinformed about Christ. People who have never heard of Christ or have been given a distorted picture of Christ can’t be expected to place their faith in Christ.

Remarks of Jefferson’s such as ‘Christianity is the most perverted system that ever shone on man’ are compatible with deism but also with atheism. So is James Madison’s robust anti-clericalism: ‘During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and

It brings us back again to the ruthlessness of the idea of sanctioned truths, exclusive ways of understanding the mystery of existence, as ordained by the officers of religious institutions. Fortunately, priests have never had it all their own way in the history of religion.

With God or without God, what is the effect, what is the consequence for others, of the story we have chosen to follow? Cruelty or kindness? Hatred or love? Contempt or understanding?