“A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia for the old objectivism, which was in any case used only to justify arrogance, tyranny, and cruelty. People [forget] ... how utterly hateful the old pre-humanitarianism world was.” PeopleIfsWorldWould BeUsedValuesForgetCasesNostalgiaTyrannyCrueltyUselessArroganceJustifyHumanitarianismHatefulObjectivism Author:Don Cupitt
“We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I have elsewhere put it; or, perhaps better, we should let ourselves be only an empty space filled with brightness. Life lived like that is ‘eternal’ life.” WorldShouldIdeasSelfLostSpaceEternalEmptyFilledSubstanceElsewhereEternal LifeObjectivityBrightnessEmpty SpaceWorld LoveOld Ideas Book:Theology's Strange Return Source: Theology's Strange Return
“Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects; we too could learn how to know the world and reshape our environment to meet our own needs.” KnowsWorldNeedsIdeasReligiousEnvironmentSubjectsCapableIdealsHaving FunAspireOur EnvironmentUnified Author:Don Cupitt
