@noonessleep @anamnesiologist In my cosmopolitan experience, it's anathema in 'high-culture' conversation, even religious, to mean the word, 'supernatural', except say, pejoratively, referring to folk culture attitudes. Referring to God reality, just once, will see your word dismissed as idiotic, for life.
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Copy of tweet and image; Whaddayaknow? The 'cultured despisers' (Schleiermacher) of religious dogma, superstition, fanaticism and false consciousness note a secular correlative. Not that similarities end there. Paraphrasing Durkheim, we're never more religious than when we think we've overcome religion. Image of tweet: 5/ Brueggemann: “The claim of dominant imagination, in both ancient Israel and in contemporary US ‘democratic capitalism,’ is a totalizing claim that does not permit any reality or any claim outside of its regime and certainly does not welcome any rival claim...” 12:12 PM 8/13/20
end/ And where Ernst Bloch identified the functional atheism of dominative Christian culture’s denial of the supernatural immediacy and power of the living God among us, right here, right now, Abd-ul-Jabbar Niffari asked, “Why do you look for God up there? He’s here! Here!"
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