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lpetrich · 02-01-2002, 07:32 PM

In the late 1960's, there was a Christian-atheist "God is dead" movement; whatever happened to it?

Mecha_Dude · 02-01-2002, 07:50 PM

they were lynched by the religious right...

02-01-2002, 08:52 PM

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Originally posted by lpetrich:
In the late 1960's, there was a Christian-atheist "God is dead" movement; whatever happened to it?

It could not sustain life to be around for long.

Scrutinizer · 02-01-2002, 10:14 PM

It died.

IvanK · 02-04-2002, 07:05 AM

The theologian Thomas J.J. Altheizer started it with his The Gospel of Christian Atheism and other works. I heard him speak in the late 70s and was amused to hear him intimating that other theologians were being "blasphemous" for suggesting that there never was a God. Probably it's been absorbed into the UUA.

FarSeeker · 03-05-2002, 03:02 PM

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It died.

And God didn't.

ex-preacher · 03-05-2002, 03:07 PM

It went the way of the "Santa is Dead" movement.

Eudaimonist · 03-05-2002, 05:07 PM

Santa's dead?

Pitshade · 03-05-2002, 05:20 PM

copernicus · 03-05-2002, 06:03 PM

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Originally posted by lpetrich:
In the late 1960's, there was a Christian-atheist "God is dead" movement; whatever happened to it?

I'm not sure that there was anything atheist about it. The idea was that the anthropomorphic God was no longer viable and that Christians needed to redefine their concept of God's nature. According to Guthrie (Faces in the Clouds), religion is based on a very natural tendency of humans to anthropomorphize everything. Hence, religions tend to have gods with very human traits. Since anthropomorphism doesn't really explain the universe very well, there is a tendency for religions to abstract away from it. However, once you begin to develop a non-anthropomorphic religion, it loses its natural appeal to human thinking. Hence, a "God is Dead" approach contains the seeds of its own destruction.

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Mecha_Dude Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Everywhere... I'm Watching you... Posts: 1,019	they were lynched by the religious right...

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Scrutinizer Regular Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Melbourne, Australia Posts: 245	It died.

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IvanK Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 2,016	The theologian Thomas J.J. Altheizer started it with his The Gospel of Christian Atheism and other works. I heard him speak in the late 70s and was amused to hear him intimating that other theologians were being "blasphemous" for suggesting that there never was a God. Probably it's been absorbed into the UUA.

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ex-preacher Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: University of Arkansas Posts: 1,033	It went the way of the "Santa is Dead" movement.

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Eudaimonist Veteran Member Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Sundsvall, Sweden Posts: 3,159	Santa's dead?

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