quote

[low_delta]

I know God promises not to give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

-Mother Teresa

Comments

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

This is perfect! How many times have I thought this to myself?

[nickzedd.livejournal.com]

God is dead.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

I'm agnostic, so I'm not sure God existed in the traditional sense to begin with. So dead? No. I view "God" more in the context of universal energy and nature. That is very much alive.

No. An agnostic ia a gutless atheist.

[nickzedd.livejournal.com]

"But when Zarathustra was alone, he spoke thus to his heart:'Could it be possible! This old saint has not yet heard in his forest that God is dead!'"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spake Zarathustra

Gutless?

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

No, just someone with an open mind to possibilities.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

So?

It is still kind of a funny thought, and it applies to life even if there is no god or other kind of higher power.

No. Man made god in his own image.

[nickzedd.livejournal.com]

"New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are already common." - John Locke

In a couple hundred years no one will understand how a silly word like god could have been used to describe something as vast and complex as Nature or the Universe.

[nickzedd.livejournal.com]

Christopher Hitchens' The Missionary Position is a very good book about Mother Teresa.

Re: No. Man made god in his own image.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

"In a couple hundred years no one will understand how a silly word like god could have been used to describe something as vast and complex as Nature or the Universe."

It sounds like you agree with Cynnerth.

She said:
"I view 'God' more in the context of universal energy and nature. That is very much alive."

She did use the word "alive", but I don't think she meant that in a literal sense.