aphorism 15, A Human Strategy

God is bold, not weak.  God does not cower before bold and honest questioning.  God does not vanish with disbelief or antagonism.  God does not garner in brow-beaten slaves.  God’s chosen are not the lowly, not the meek, not the sick.  God is the noble in us ... the resistance and not the compliance.  God is this Human Spirit ... that within us which stands up what would otherwise fall down.  So let us never again prostrate ourselves before an institution ... a book ... a history ... another human.  Let us be great ourselves ... for the real God shall only be seen by the godly ... in a glass ... and face to face.




A Human Strategy ** The Mechanics of Virtue ** Post-Atheism



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