religion, US vs UK

[Jim heartfield]

In message <20000627.185454.-577563.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, Jim
Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes
>On the other hand liberal
>theologians like Don Cupitt contend that it is possible to be a believing
>Christian while denying the tenets of traditional theism.  But Cupitt's
>theology seems to me to be little different from the views espoused
>by many philosophers who would describe themselves as atheistic
>naturalists.

Yes it was Cupitt, and Richard Holloway, that I had in mind. Definitely
atheists.

But of course there are atheists and atheists.

There are the humanists who reject God to champion man, who derive their
origins from Feuerbach and Marx, and there are the merely dispirited who
derive their origins from Nietzsche and Heidegger.

Tillich being one of the latter.
-- 
James Heartfield

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