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Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism
(November 3, 2022 at 12:14 am)rlp21858 Wrote: [...] much of the omnipotent effect about God has to do with the fact that God is in us, so that much of the working of God is determined by us.

This is something I've read a lot from more mystical Christians. It has a long pedigree. It was a key point for William Blake. And it grows through various thinkers into German Idealism, into Hegel.

Quote:Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which He looks
Compassion on this world,
Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good,
Yours are the hands, with which He blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
Yours are the eyes, you are His body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
— St. Teresa of Ávila (attributed)
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RE: Even if theism is a failure, it's still superior to atheism - by Belacqua - November 3, 2022 at 12:19 am

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