A Spirituality Bracketed by Fear: The Old Testament God was an external being, distant and cold … threatening. The New Testament internalized God. As with “Enthusiasm” for the Greeks, it signified “the god within you.” These are not completely in contradiction. And indeed, from deep within, a doctrine of an afterlife sprang out of culture with the energy and determination of a fish on a cutting board.

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