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hear music in the key of the life. :::
know and be still.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The Religious Approach to God... [Peter Rollins]
"The religious approach to God drains life of its pleasure through offering an elusive being from beyond who one must either accept is...
never fully present (thus rendering our faith practices into ultimately tedious disciplines),
whom we think we can have bunt never encounter (making us feel excluded and unworthy),
or who appears to us in exceptional moments (thus causing us to pursue ever more extreme religious practices that might create 'thin space' for these meetings).
To approach God as a person we will meet in a future time, a person who is always avoiding us or whom we occasionally bump into, like some friend at a party, misses the properly theological insight that God is manifest only in our embrace and affirmation of the broken world."
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