The God Desire opens, appropriately enough, with a quotation from a non-existent book. Written by Virginia Brook, a fictional atheist in the play God’s Dice by the comedian David Baddiel, The Belief System begins: A close friend once said to me: but don’t you
But isn't to not be fully "at home in one's home" (or to be at home in the distance in which we live (Gadamer)) also a religious impulse or an expression of a religious sensibility?
İ like what Arendt says: just when we came to believe we were only terrestrial animals we have wanted to escape earth. That desire to escape earth and finitude seems to have in some quarters become even more pressing once God was 'killed'.
And maybe there's a paradox: without a transcendental reference have we become *more* homeless? Has the world become more 'worldless'?
The urgent impulse to feel at home in the universe is as cosmic as it is religious, and for many of us is satisfied only by reflections on our evolutionary heritage coupled with hope for its future. I was never impressed, either, by a superhero god demanding submissive worship.
Well expressed. Thank you.
But isn't to not be fully "at home in one's home" (or to be at home in the distance in which we live (Gadamer)) also a religious impulse or an expression of a religious sensibility?
İ like what Arendt says: just when we came to believe we were only terrestrial animals we have wanted to escape earth. That desire to escape earth and finitude seems to have in some quarters become even more pressing once God was 'killed'.
And maybe there's a paradox: without a transcendental reference have we become *more* homeless? Has the world become more 'worldless'?
The urgent impulse to feel at home in the universe is as cosmic as it is religious, and for many of us is satisfied only by reflections on our evolutionary heritage coupled with hope for its future. I was never impressed, either, by a superhero god demanding submissive worship.