I have a question.
Is there any use for discussions about God? Is God irrelevant in the post-modern world? Should we just agree with Nietzsche and say, “God is dead. God remains dead. And we killed him.” Are we still enlightened or have we become wholly subjective so that everything is relativized by our own point of view?
These are real questions. I don’t have ready answers. At least not satisfactory ones. I’ve spent my life asking these questions. I have heard lots of answers, conjecture, and opinions. I continue to muse about this in blog posts that no one reads. It seems ok when I write about what’s happening in real life. Stuff like seeing a hawk on a walk in the woods. Or maybe a hole in the wall where my left foot went through it. I can write about my relationships with my wife and kids. That seems to be OK. When I start to wrestle with my thoughts out loud it’s considered esoteric and abstract stuff that no one really cares about.
I understand this. In a secular world formed around the scientific method there’s not much room for any talk of metaphysics or the unseen. For anyone to spend time considering such things is a speculative walk down a dark path. Where is the reality? What can I see, touch, taste, smell, or hear? Can I test it? Is it repeatable and peer reviewed?
More importantly, does it even matter? How does an invisible Sky God impact my everyday life? Even if I say that this Deity is personal and can be experienced in some sublime way, who cares?
I write this in all honesty. I know what I think and believe. Does anyone else know what they actually think and believe?
Who really cares?
Well, my goodness gracious! Many of us care and believe and wrestle with ideas and questions. And those of us with literature degrees ponder in an academic way the realities vis-a-vis the images we receive and retain from the words on the page. The words on the page, baby. Whole worlds open up. God is not an abstraction to me.