The growing gap between theology and science
for five centuries meant religion got relegated
to the backburner of fixed abstract concepts
which couldn’t cope with a universe of dynamic change –
Isaac Newton believed God’s living commands
would be replaced by mathematical laws
and Darwin’s theory of universal evolution
destroyed the immutable world of religion.
We either accept our fixed views/beliefs/assumptions
about reality, or we challenge them –
to remain open and curious, according to Buddha
is the best use of our lives.
Evolution entails a continuous revolution
in consciousness that eventually expresses itself
in deeper religious understanding –
most Christians today are rethinking Augustine
who gave way too much weight to one verse:
“I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin
did my mother conceive me” Psalm 51:5.
The idea we all are sinners
right from the moment of conception
gave birth to the prevailing paradigm of Original Sin
and convenient communal amnesia about the verse
that God originally created everything
including us humans “very good” (Psalm 1:31).
Religious ideas in western Christianity
are now in flux/diverse/non-dogmatic
even in religious America only .05% believe
they or their neighbours will go to hell
and 70% believe many religions lead to eternal life –
contemporary atheists now seem to know more
about traditional Christian beliefs
than most Catholics and Protestants!
The request of Peter by Jesus
to cast his nets into the deep
was a symbolic invitation to us to go deep into our souls
and haul up a treasure of self-knowledge –
that, and communal remembering
and becoming mystics as Karl Rahner advocated
are the only ways we will make Christianity work again.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 
You’re almost there – nothing much for an anitheisimist like me to object to, so why not come join us?
I had a grandfather who was pretty high up in the German Catholic Church. He wrote a memoir about his life and times, but I don’t remember any reference to Karl Rahner.
I have no interest in anything to do with either religion or spirituality, but I do have to admit that this was a well-written post from you.
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considering how christians don’t follow their supposed god’s commandments, it seems you all have quite different religions. There is no “communal remembering” when you can’t agree on what you want to claim is some “truth”.
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