Who is this Ludwig Feuerbach? He was a philosopher who lived 1804-1872 and influenced some other dudes you may have heard of; Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles. He wrote a book called The Essence of Christianity in which he asserts that God is just something people have projected to be real. He says, “Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his… Read more →

Today’s ponderings come from a very famous Christian theologian, writer, and priest, Meister Eckhart (1260-1328). it’s a short reflection so I’m just going to share the whole thing with you. God is above all understanding by Meister Eckhart   God is nameless, for no man can either say or understand aught about Him. If I say, God is good, it… Read more →

So, again we have excerpt from a famous Christian mystic, this time a woman,  Marguerite Porete (1248/1250 – 1310), who was eventually deemed a heretic and was burned at the stake for not changing her views and for not removing her book from circulation. The excerpt comes from this book and, well it doesn’t seem all that heretical to me, but of… Read more →

So, Wed’s article was pretty hard to digest, I’m not gonna lie. But not because I disagreed with any of, but because it was really wordy and it very confusingly goes off in a round about way in an attempt to PROVE God’s existence. It’s a snippet of an essay from the great Anslem of Canterbury (1033-1109) and all I… Read more →

Hey guys this my reflection on the AFL content for Tuesday, Feb 27th.   This week seems to be quite interesting. So far what he’s offering is a lot of the same stuff I learned and studied at Laidlaw in History. Today Rollins just offers a handful of quotes from some famous mystics early church, and of, what are referred… Read more →

Okay, first of all, let me say that I’m very interested in Christian mysticism. I know for some people the word “mysticism” and “mystic” or “mystical” sound new age-y, or airy fairy or whatever, but the Christian mystics have a profound place in our history, and I find studying them quite fascinating. That said, this may be hard for some of… Read more →

These are my thoughts, replies, and reflections on what I took as the main thread/theme of Week 2 for AFL. They build off of last week’s deconstruction of a standardised, Western view of who or what God is, because the tendency is to put God in a box and make God out to be what we want God to be… Read more →

Hey everyone, this is my first blog reflecting on Peter Rollins’ Atheism for Lent series. It’s not quite what I was expecting – at least not the first week – and maybe it’ll be surprising to you too. Here’s sort of a summary of what the first week was about. Enjoy, and leave comments for discussion either here, or on… Read more →