Newton’s mechanistic universe was the harbinger
of Nietzsche’s “death of God” – God was replaced
by the inexorable laws of physics as the means
of explaining things – no need for God anymore.
The abandonment of God and religion
is no longer unusual – it is seen as a requirement
of scientific progress and a new humanism
which has affected the arts/literature/history/law
and has left people shaken not stirred.
However, the great role for religion
in our postmodern world is to move people
from pre-rationality to rationality to trans-rationality
from child to adolescent to adult spirituality.
There have been great religious thinkers
trying to bring about a new synthesis
by including everyone. Rev. Dr. John Macquarrie
put us in touch with traditional wisdom
through Augustine and Aquinas
but also with contemporary great thinkers:
psychologists Freud and Jung
neo-Marxists Bloch and Marcuse
theologians Tillich and Rahner
philosophers Wittgenstein and Sartre.
And William McLoughlin outlined five stages
of religious awakening:
- doubting the old ideas
- seeing institutional malfunction
- a new vision of human nature/spirituality/God
- new practices/ways of life/being emerging
- the transformation of institutions.
Universal oneness/we are all one/all connected
was described by the ancient mystics
and now is being discovered anew
by modern physics.
Thesis: religion
Anti-thesis: science
Synthesis: religion and science as equals.
Intelligent Christian Spirituality 
“he abandonment of God and religion
is no longer unusual – it is seen as a requirement
of scientific progress and a new humanism
which has affected the arts/literature/history/law
and has left people shaken not stirred.”
yep, since your religions and gods can’t be found.
“Universal oneness/we are all one/all connected
was described by the ancient mystics
and now is being discovered anew
by modern physics.”
funny how christianity doesn’t advocate for this concept, but demands that only one group is “chosen”
And as always, no evidence for the claim that any of this religious nonsense has been supported by physics.
“Synthesis: religion and science as equals.”
they aren’t since one has nothing to support it, out of the many many versions, and one does have evidence to support its conclusions.
As always, christians try to make their god vaguer and vaguer, to leave behind the ignorant violent one they are stuck wtih in their bible. They claim this is “adult” or “sophisticated” theology.
Unsurprisingly, they can’t show any evidence for that either.
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