Believing the unbelievable
is the main point of belief.
Belief is always an act and wonder has a very good
grip on reality. A wonderer knows precisely where to draw the line beyond which
rational thinking must stop.
What mattere to the early Christians was identity, being a Christian, singing hymns and
restraining oneself and gathering in hidden places, pretending to understand
abstruse sermons and responding when everyone else did,
Identiry was to participate in that novel
Christian experience of struggling to read and to know through texts. the diversity of texts is a
reflection of a diversity of discourses and movements, whereas texts are often
the sign of a struggle, shouting when no one is listening.
. The founders of
Christianity and its sects must be given marks for their mythical innovations, as
if success depended on a particularly neat new fable: a virgin birth, a divine
criminal, a dead god.
If Christian miracles seem to belong to the world of witchcraft and demons, that was perhaps the section of the ancient world where belief was most easily suspended. Modern inventors of religions appeal to UFOs.
If Christian miracles seem to belong to the world of witchcraft and demons, that was perhaps the section of the ancient world where belief was most easily suspended. Modern inventors of religions appeal to UFOs.
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