I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in … - Don Cupitt

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It might have been the hardest hit I took all day.

Don Cupitt

I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completely forget about time and anxiety.

Action, Anxiety, Completely, Forget, Moral

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A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget]. . . how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.

Arrogance, Justify, Old, People, Values, Would Be

Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.

Aspire, Functioned, Having Fun, Ideas, Know, Religious

All life is dying life – including the life of God.

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Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouring itself out and passing away, as dissemination. We live in a postmodern epoch in which there is nothing absolute, nothing permanent and nothing substantial.

Away, Past, Postmodern, Reality, See, Years

Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.

Christianity, Christmas, Disneyfication

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