To say: "Praise him, praise him."can be off-putting. But again it's not really about flattery. It's the reverse. People who get to know about "Godness", "Goditty" and God are merely expressing how they feel. "Praise him." is not actually a command, but an expostulation. Quite an everyday use of language: "My God, wow wee. Look at that view."That's sort of thing. As for Karen Armstrong's focus on "belief" and her post facto reconstructive etymology: "Logos" or "Mythos". It doesn't wash for me because it's an authentically false distinction, if you know what I mean. Just as the post-feminist narrative of nursing and the position of women in society on a TV programme I saw tonight was false - something to cringe over in twenty years time - like 1980s hairstyles. Today my 16 year old daughter was confirmed in the Catholic faith. Everyone had their own pew; everyone was dressed in their S...
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