Well ... I have read several books recently (Small Gods by ..... and American Gods by .... as well as a chapter ijn "The messiah of Stokholm by Cynthia Ozick) and the idea that how strongly we believe in something is what makes it whatever it is. SO... if we really believe in G-d... than G-d exists and is what we believe... or so this thinking goes!
Blasphemy comes to mind, of course, but so, too, does some sense of realness and truth. The "G-d is dead" sentiment goes a long way towards destroying what good comes from believing in G-d. Believing in the precepts of some church or religion ALSO goes a long way towards destroying what good comes from believing in G-d by insulating us from direct contact with G-d. Religions simplify what G-d is so as to communicate to the masses and in that simplification there is great loss of what is real and right and good and, fundamentally, COMPLICATED AND SIMPLE AND RADICAL.... ALL AT ONCE!
Communication is always a matter of making simple and understandable that which is is always much more. Communications is the making a map of some territory and therefore it is a distant abstraction/subtraction.
But what about Polyanna? Well she was a goody goody and
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