Heidegger

> juvenile [adj.] Of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for
> children.

Well, I did not intend to produce a metaphysical treatise in an e-mail. And
I am glad you say it is juvenile, this means I’m still young at heart.

Many people claim that the Bible says this or that, but if I were their
teacher, I would not allow them to pass a basic literacy test (reading with
comprehension). So, again, one has to be juvenile, in order to be
comprehended by people of such limited reading ability. Of course, I make a
general point, and I do not mean the persons on this list. This is simply
because one cannot take Heidegger for an already self-understood idea,
shared by many and reproduced in idle talk, so they are forced to read and
comprehend or else they cannot discuss Heidegger.

And it is rather sad to see that a two thousands years theological tradition
had very few people that were able to read and at the same time taking Bible
seriously. At this is not completely due to the fact that being able to read
and taking Bible seriously assured one’s burning.

My Christianity is not the hypocritical hocus-pocus into feeling good about
yourself, but it is a fierce and fiery revolution, and conquest of truth
wherein he who fails remains where he felt. If I would like to do something,
that is to unlearn the minds of some people of their self-understood shared
opinions they learnt in Sunday school, and make them look at the Bible as
the voice of Being, talking to them while they read it. Of course, one needs
to have this feeling before being able to comprehend the language he is
hearing.

I do not intend to hang the last bourgeois with the guts of the last priest,
but I certainly have something of that feeling in respect to those who
misrepresent the Bible. So, basically, I have the same feeling of spreading
God’s word, as any fanatical evangelist knocking at people’s doors to spread
the Word, with the difference that I am not a fanatic and that I despise
fanaticism.

E.g., I am filled with amazement when I read Richard Swinburne’s “Providence
and the Problem of Evil”, because I realize the whole tradition of
apologetics (theodicy) begins with an assumption that Isaiah 45:7 says it’s
false.

Greetings,

Tudor

Posted on Monday, August 14th, 2006 at 1:05 am
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