> Ah, you're probably interpreting that as believers walking in fear all day
No, I was referring to the fact that religious people basically have a slave-like mentality [1][2]
No, I was referring to the fact that religious people basically have a slave-like mentality [1][2]
And this just strengthens David Foster Wallace's argument: if you're going to be a slave anyway, why not be a slave to the greatest possible thing, Creation itself?
You are simply living from moment to moment, with no grounding connecting your beliefs aside from your personal desires for them.
What’s very concrete is what God has revealed to us historically through his people Israel, and through his son’s incarnation. What the church does is try to take these revelations/projections and through reason map out the source.