I’ve been reading Bonhoeffer again after spending a Saturday night in a crowded basement in the East Village for Pete Rollin’s Insurrection Tour. Thought I would share this reflection. As Pete says, “to believe is human, to doubt is divine.” Speaks to the strangely familiar way doubt seems to open me up to God.
Peace, Terry
“Religious people speak of God when human knowledge (perhaps simply because they are too lazy to think) has come to an end, or when human resources fail – in fact it is always the deus ex machina that they bring on the scene, either for the apparent solution of insoluble problems or as strength in human failure – always, that is to say, exploiting human weakness of human problems.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, p. 283.







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