...for someone who possessed omnipotence would not need to demand obedience from his child, would not need to feel his security threatened by false gods, and would not persecute his people for having them. Perhaps the theologians are not in a position to create an ideal image of true goodness and omnipotence differing with the character of their real fathers [and mothers] until they have seen through this character. And so they create an image of God based on the model they are already familiar with. Their God is like their father [or mother]: insecure, authoritarian, power-hungry, vengeful, egocentric.
"What kind of Paradise is it in which it is forbidden--under threat of loss of love and of abandonment, of feeling guilty and ashamed--to eat from the Tree of Knowledge... to ask questions and to seek answers to them? Why should it be wicked to want to know what is happening, to want to orient oneself in the world?
"What kind of Paradise is it in which it is forbidden--under threat of loss of love and of abandonment, of feeling guilty and ashamed--to eat from the Tree of Knowledge... to ask questions and to seek answers to them? Why should it be wicked to want to know what is happening, to want to orient oneself in the world?
ISSO ME FAZ LEMBRAR DE SETEMBRO (?) DO ANO. PASSADO (?). CONVERSA QUE TIVE COM CARLA, AMIGA DE MEU IRMÃO. TENTEI DIZER A ELA PRECISAMENTE ISSO, MAS A LÍNGUA EMPEDROU. COM MEDO DO CASTIGO. É O DEUS DA MINHA INFÂNCIA, QUE NÃO TRAZ CHIFRES NA CABEÇA OU INDUMENTÁRIA ESCURA, MAS QUE, SIM, REPRIME. E FAZ COM QUE EU SINTA A PREMÊNCIA DE ARRANCAR, PORQUE INSTRUMENTO DO PECADO, O PRÓPRIO CÉREBRO.
HOJE EU APRENDI A REMENDAR MINHAS CONVICÇÕES DE FORMA NÃO PRETENSIOSA, MAS FIRME. E O MEU DEUS, QUE NÃO É MAIS IGREJAS-ALTAS, E EU, QUE DEIXEI DE SER A-POBRE-MASSA-SEM-SEIVA, NÓS NOS ENTENDEMOS; INDA QUE NÃO DIALOGUEMOS COM A FREQÜÊNCIA DE OUTRORA. E ELE É TOLERANTE E ME FAZ TRANSBORDAR DE SERENIDADE, NO CIMO DOS IMPASSES. COM VOZ DOCE E RITMO EXCEPCIONALMENTE COMPASSADO.
A N D . H E . S E E S . W H A T . I . D I D . T H E R E.
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