A meditation on the death of God as the death of our older versions of the God-concept. This is a passage from 'The GOD Emerging'': a reading for Good Friday 2024. Text version here: brendangrahamdempsey.substack...
This is true. True, because this happened to you. Thanks for sharing your story… God did die today… He resurrected too, just like you did Brendan ❤ I am glad to participate in this holy day together.
@@BrendanGrahamDempsey hmmm yes… something in me says: Christ/God dies daily as we daily miss the ideal, and this liturgy of dying (going to bed) and resurrecting (waking every morning) is the opportunity to pursue this ideal, to honor that death and rising. Then maybe something like stacking on it, is participating in that with liturgicaly through the transjective in relationships, then also with weekly liturgical worship, and it then that culminates as being the liturgy of life. I credit some of this thinking to my friend @ruminationmerge . I’m working away from family tonight, not able to participate in my community in worship, and these little dialogs make me feel a little virtually not alone in contemplating Good Friday and Easter, and it’s because we actually know each other… wild Thanks.
This is beautiful and heartbreaking in a distant, vicarious sort of way. I've come to think God was a special sort of idea that reveals ones true ideals; ideals divinely seen and enforced. What would you feel if someone were always watching? Likewise, the death of God reveals hard truths that are not easy to own up to. Alone in the Universe, humanity must face her reality, take responsibility, and perhaps finally grow up a little.
