impleri

Well, it’s way old now, but the Rational Response Squad wants people to “blaspheme” — “deny the holy spirit” and/or commit the “unforgivable sin.” Since I don’t have a webcam to do this via video, I have to settle for text. God is dead…and we have killed him. That’s what Nietzsche’s madman declared long ago. Well, even so, I still “believe in God.” It’s just that I don’t believe in a semi-physical being that’s “out there” who needs some kind of consolation because some don’t believe in “him.” Here’s a problem with the RRS’s reasoning: first, this “unforgivable sin” has still been forgiven. Sorry, but the Christian faith I hold to says that God dies for all sins–not some or a few or all for those who believe. It’s “unforgivable” in that a “normal, rational” wouldn’t forgive it, but that doesn’t change the text that says that it was. I see it as a friend betraying another and the first–who shouldn’t forgive the second–still forgives him anyway (think of that arc in the series Angel where Wesley betrays Angel). Secondly, I want to clarify my first response in that “God is dead.” It’s not that God was some being with a lifespan who died of old age…or even some kind of being that can be killed. What Nietzsche meant is that what was the prevalent conception of God (which is still prevalent today) has been killed….AND that we did it (with our increasing individualism and subjectivism)…AND that he was a bit early (advice: go grab a copy of The Gay Science and re-read that passage…I think it was section 129, but I can be off by a few and I’m too lazy to check). Thirdly, doing this around a church building is just plain stupid. Nobody at Mardi Gras (which is 20 Feb this year) likes the over-zealous “evangelists” running about proclaiming how everyone there is going to hell. Let’s not stoop to that same level if we wish to be called “rational.” I’m sorry, but so far, it doesn’t look like the RRS is rationally responding to anything. It’s all emotional.