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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: Solon who wrote (19858)4/27/2005 4:25:03 PM
From: average joe  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
"He [Luther] had a peculiar horror and loathing of the great Greek philosophies, and of the Scholasticism that had been founded on those philosophies. He had one theory that was the destruction of all theories; in fact it had its own theology, which was itself the death of theology. Man could say nothing to God, nothing from God, nothing about God, except an almost inarticulate cry for mercy and for the super-natural help of Christ, in a world where all natural things were useless. Reason was useless. Will was useless. Man could not move himself an inch any more than a stone. . . . It is not, as the moderns delight to say, a question of theology. The Protestant theology of Martin Luther was a thing that no modern Protestant would be seen dead in a field with; or if the phrase be too flippant, would be specially anxious to touch with a barge pole. That Protestantism was pessimism; it was nothing but bare insistence on the hopelessness of all human virtue, as an attempt to escape hell."
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