TIM, ABOUT NIETZSCHE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_NietzscheBTW, fellow posters, for the next 16 days, my wife an I will be on a vacation in sunny and warm (we hope) Florida. Today, it is sunny in Toronto, but would you believe the temperature was -32 C. That is below zero on the old F scale. For March, that is very low.
TREAT EACH OTHER WITH TLC WHILE I AM AWAY, OKAY?
TIM, you did not answer my question about how you conceptualize God. For example, how would you explain the concept of God to children who are still in the stage where they still believe that Santa Claus is a real person?
Interestingly, Nietzsche was the son of an Evangelical Christian minister. So were others of his family. For example, his grandparent and uncles.
Also, Charles Darwin took his only degree, in theology, from Cambridge. He actually intended to be a minister. He, too, came from a family with lots of clergy in it. His grandfather was a well respected minister and intellect.
I don't think that Darwin ever said that he was an atheist, but he sure came to quite a different view than the literal stories--there are two--in the Bible. He probably also had a different concept of God.
If God is in personal control of all things, why would he arrange things as just stated?
How come much of the world is under the control of those who are either stupid, or outright evil--greedy, oppressive and power hungry?
USING MY FREE WILL
Doing sincere experiments in prayer, I have asked God, more than once, "Reveal to me, O God, how you would like all believers, like me, to think of you?" I also used and still practice meditation.
I heard no real answer telling me to go back to the traditional way.
All I get is the intuition to search deeper and to be open to progressive possibilities such as are found in:
http://www.progressivechristianity.ca/It was after some deep meditation that I discovered progressinve thinkers like Bisop John Shelby Spong, former Dominican priest Matthew Fox, etc. We now have a church--
http://www.pathwayschurch.ca --
in my area.
It follows this progressive model.
My mediations also led me to speak of God as I do in my signature. How come?
