Help
Sign In
atheism
August 2008 
Stealing God
Posted on Jun 8th, 2008
by 
MrTeacup
MrTeacup
We build our churches on the holy sites of other cultures and install our own gods. Notre Dame sits on a holy Druid site. "Ours is the true God," we say by doing so. But this usurpation is also a kind of acknowledgement, a perverse honoring of the more ancient culture: a holy site is a holy site, just as a holy day is a holy day. In the same way, our scientific view of the origins of life overlies ancient creation myths. That is why I feel we must use the God word, for my hope is to honorably steal its aura to authorize the sacredness of the creativity in nature. May we find the creativity in nature sacred whether we are atheists or believers in a God who breathed life into this universe of ceaseless creativity.
- Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred
Access: Public
