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 →
Monthly Archives: March 2018
AFL Blog Week 3 Part 5: God’s Not Good
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 →
AFL Blog Week 3 Part 4: Human Will and God’s Will
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 →
AFL Blog Week 3 Part 3: Understanding
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 →