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A Prayer of a Disbeliever

He is not content
To settle in a place, and say,
"This is my plot."
His desire for something more
Is so strong that
He makes disbelief a starting point
And then a continual testing ground
For his conviction about religion.
Disbelief is a longing,
Yearning to envision more than he can handle
And probe for that is beyond his human boundary.
The blessed restlessness makes him
Want to throw in the towel before the unknowable.
God of Reason, I believe; Help my disbelief!
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

ericcoliu

Champagne

Champagne · 发表于: 星期二十一月 27, 2007 8:34 pm 发表主题:

A New God Is Emerging

The Christian faith, in its classical form, presented the beauty and terror of life without evasion, and was based on one principle: the principle of the presence and absence of God. Through numerous encounters with his people, God talked as well as kept silent. God gave hope to the pleading believer when he spoke, and pushed him into despair when he was absent. The story of the classical Christian faith was the history of this constant going back and forth between distance and closeness, between mystery and revelation.

Nowadays, what takes place in the American-influenced Christian world is something completely different. A God who never stops talking, a God who only knows black and white, a God who is over here when you help a child to cross the street, a God who has become your best buddy. This conception of God turns it the way you want. It is no longer either the God of anger or the God of silence. It is something new. Something is appearing in this long history of Christianity, the result of which you are just beginning to see and be witnesses of.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

星子 · 发表于: 星期三十一月 28, 2007 12:04 pm 发表主题:

It seems you have a lot of knowledge about religions. A wealthy man.
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Champagne · 发表于: 星期六十二月 01, 2007 9:19 am 发表主题:

Thanks for reading my writing. I just want to stir some serious thinking about religion, especially Christianity which has been the long-held intellectual tradition in the West.

Seek and Find

You may find God
In your bible readings
Or may not.

You may find God
In your Sunday services
Or may not.

You may find God
In your anxious prayers
Or may not.

You may find God
In your encounters with Christians
Or may not.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.

ericcoliu · 发表于: 星期六十二月 01, 2007 8:04 pm 发表主题:

Champagne · 发表于: 星期日十二月 02, 2007 6:54 pm 发表主题:

The End of Man in the Death of God

Since God was murdered by Nietzsche's claim,
Man speaks, thinks, exists in the death of God;
Therefore, his murderer is doomed to die.
New gods, the same gods are already swelling the future ocean.
"Man will disappear some day!"
Foucault declared the end of man in the death of God.
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I'm Champagne,
Bottled poetry with sparkling joy.