God is the Being to which everything matters, to which everything makes a difference.
On atheism, events just happen to you for no reason but chance, e.g. an illness. The best you can do is buy medical insurance just in case.
On theism, there’s a place you are meant to be.
On atheism, events just happen to you for no reason but chance, e.g. an illness. The best you can do is buy medical insurance just in case.
On theism, there’s a place you are meant to be.
One of the many ways that theism and atheism are absolute binary ways of comprehending literally everything.
Nothing is without God, on theism. A Godless reality can’t even BE on its own without God.
To view reality as Godless (if possible) is at least radically OTHER.
Nothing is without God, on theism. A Godless reality can’t even BE on its own without God.
To view reality as Godless (if possible) is at least radically OTHER.
At an ontological level, God is the transcendent other of Being, "exceeding it in dignity and power.”
This is why it is wrong to call God the Supreme Being, because this fails to communicate that God is not a being among beings.
This is why it is wrong to call God the Supreme Being, because this fails to communicate that God is not a being among beings.
It is wrong, strictly, to say that God “is”, because this imputes mere Being to God, which He infinitely exceeds while at the same time being its source and ground.
Heidegger rightly criticized this as onto-theology, in which God is reduced to a being, much in the same way Being and Time are reduced to present beings.
In general, one thing Heidegger showed was that modern thought had become ridiculously narrow and literal-minded.
Nietzsche already observed this in the 19th century: we weren’t a high civilization, we were industrious little drones. That is, our father’s father’s father’s.
Nietzsche already observed this in the 19th century: we weren’t a high civilization, we were industrious little drones. That is, our father’s father’s father’s.
Late modern ontology either flattens Being into a kind of ‘objective thing-being’ or else dissolves into postmodern misology and absurdism.
Remember: People can “liberate” you from good things, in the way dictators might liberate their population of burdensome freedom or even food.
People can take things from you, like faith, under a pretext of liberation.
People can take things from you, like faith, under a pretext of liberation.
If you are having a tough time with your faith, find someone spiritual wise to talk it through with.
Don’t swallow the atheistic “atheism is liberation” bait. Your faith is your path to God, and it is always free.
Don’t swallow the atheistic “atheism is liberation” bait. Your faith is your path to God, and it is always free.
Heidegger saw the collapse of German Idealism in the mid-19th century into squabbling left and right Hegelianisms, including Marxism and proto-fascism—the bourgeoisie were reading Schopenhauer—as a spiritual and intellectual failure of the German people to maintain their level.
The young Nietzsche was enamored of the Wagnerian vision, but later came to see it was essentially humbug. Wagner was the P.T. Barnum of Higher Culture.
Nowadays, decadent as he was, Wagner is MILES above us. We have, for God’s sake, Beyonce.
Nowadays, decadent as he was, Wagner is MILES above us. We have, for God’s sake, Beyonce.
