[lbo-talk] "I pledge allegiance to the UN...

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> Jim Devine wrote:
> 
>> Luckily, Jesuits have a sense of humor...
> 
> 
> Do they believe in God? If so, in what sense? I've heard that it's 
> standard in liberal Catholic & Protestant seminaries to treat god & the 
> bible as metaphors.
> 
> Doug

My graduate advisor was a Jesuit.  He was always a bit elusive about 
questions like that.  He definitely didn't believe in a guy with a white 
beard up in heaven, but he believed in God.  --God as ineffable, kinda 
like Kant's noumena.

Miles

Miles