Knowing vs. Believing

In the very mode of seeing that raises the suffering, broken, and excluded to the level of the beautiful, sublime, and absolute, God is present. Not dwelling behind or above, but as dwelling in the very midst...God is the name we give to the way of living in which we experience the world as worthy of living for, fighting for, and dying for.

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Atheism is always the proper response to idolatry.

By 'a/theism' I am referring, not to an intellectual disavowal of God, but to the felt experience of God’s absence; an experience that must be distinguished from the idea of a mere absence of experience. To understand the difference take a moment to think about the difference between the absence that exists before you meet someone you later come to love and the absence you experience once they are gone. In both cases the person is absent, but the first is a mere absence of experience while the second is an experience of absence. ...If the Crucifixion and Resurrection open up a/theism through the loss of all ground (Crucifixion) and the embrace of existence in the aftermath of this event (Resurrection) then the re-embrace of theism would be a retrograde step. One that would take us away from this profoundly liberating, life affirming and transformative event.