John > So only when we get to the point of being completely godless can we be completely humanitarian?
Touche. That's, of course, if one wants a "proper" god -- one that knows about, and demands, human sacrifice, Holocaust and the Inquisition, not a wishy-washy one who keeps on about "love". God is about power, ruthless and arbitrary, not about sociology and Marxism, those are human constructs. Here's Spengler:
atimes.com
>>The remnants of Christian state religion rot and stink on the dying continent of Europe. Christianity cannot persist except as a continuing revival, a recurring conversion - as a sequence of singular events, rather than as an orderly process. Awaiting execution in Hitler's prisons, the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that in a world come of age, the Christian religion no longer could exist as organized practice, but only as an expression of individual conscience.
America was created for precisely this purpose, to replace state religion on the European model with a religion of individual conscience. Such a religion must be schismatic, multi-sectarian, short on doctrine but long on inspiration. America's kaleidoscope of Protestant denominations, so bewildering to Europeans, constitutes the only type of milieu in which Christianity yet may flourish. Although Christian communities are burgeoning throughout the world, they will succeed only in emulation of the American version. << |
