RE: Free will and the necessary evil
November 11, 2022 at 12:50 am
(This post was last modified: November 11, 2022 at 12:56 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 30, 2022 at 11:22 am)Mystical Wrote: I keep running into self proclaimed Christains who claim god "isnt like that" and they don't believe in Hell.
Contemporary secularization, it hasn't just worked on atheists...or even on atheists the most. Christianity is in flux, the nature of god itself is in flux - ever was it thus. The underlying question isn't whether or why christians do or can believe something despite text or tradition, that's never not been the case...but, whether there's a successful revision of the theology that can reverse it's death spiral. The vast acceptance of jesus-as a populist wise man, even among atheists, shows that society is primed - but how does christianity cross the line and turn this unfortunate shaman back into a god or a symbol of the divine for a contemporary audience?
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