| I know at least two people who have experienced gods, and | more than two who survived the Shoah. In both cases, I'm basing | this on direct personal report. | | (One of the two mentioned above is now a serious follower of the | gods in question; the other had an idle conversation, enjoyed the | garden as the god invited him to, and hasn't changed his life in | any way.)
I take issue with the above --for its expression that God as an idea or a concept is dead. This tends to come from a natural rejection of dogmatism and puritanical/evangelical/fundamental views (those that contradict reality and sense) -- and in that sense its an attitude with which I identify with highly.
But its all too typical in AmSociety to deal see God as a leftover relic of a primitive humanity. The primitive "hand of God" notion -- playing with humanity like a bunch of toy soldiers -- is indeed a relic, but a relic of a misinterpretation. The monotheist idea of "all is of one " is equivalent to the eastern traditional ideas where "all is one". The meaing of "God" -- "that which cannot be named" -- regardless of the the time, is quite an idea to wrap a human mind around. Its the idea of something thats too ... to fit into an idea.