Sentences with phrase «childish ideas of god»
Like all the rest of us, they start with childish ideas of God — a venerable bookkeeper, with white flowing beard, standing behind a high desk and writing down everybody's bad deeds, was the way Professor John Fiske of Harvard in his boyhood pictured God.
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this whole idea that god saves only shows the power of people to believe whatever and get over whatever... so you have no need for a one of the fav five god (flaming bush) with a foot fetish (no sandles please)... the childish concept of «BE GOOD AND YOU GET AN AFTERLIFE» well thats just sad and a bit sickening to believe that some adults still believe in god... one could ask if santa ever saved them from a life crisis!
If we are to have a profound religion, we may indeed throw away our old, childish, anthropomorphic ideas of God, but we may not throw away God and leave ourselves caught like rats in the trap of an aimless, meaningless, purposeless universe.