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The Evolution of Religion |
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When I have the opportunity to engage the public in conversations about the evolution of religion or the necessity for religions to move beyond their role as mediators of a narrative that includes a supernatural component, I am often challenged by those who argue that the God I say we need to move away from doesn't exist. The argument is that we no longer believe in a male God who lives in the sky and intervenes in human affairs to offer us a way to follow, to reward us for good behaviour, or to chastise us and discipline us for running off the divinely ordained rails. My response has always been that the concept of God toward which many in leadership roles in liberal mainline denominations have migrated is not the same God that is still mightily known and entrenched in the world around us. And so, I say, it's not a straw man, it's what people really believe.
Now I have proof. Watch this video from the November 17th edition of The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Each of the other panelists draw upon the reality of that God even if it is initially presented as an "absurd dream" created to help us cope with our "absurd lives."
Enjoy. I did.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 19 November 2009 )
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