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Don Cupitt on Non-Realism about God

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The Decline of the Old World View in Christianity

Since the decline of the old world view, it's becoming increasingly problematic what we mean by God. Popular belief in God has got more and more anthropomorphic as if God were nothing but a very large human being. We don't know how far all these metaphors can be true. Do you really think you could set up a rocket and find huge, great human-looking figures sitting on chairs above the bright blue sky? Of course you don't. That's why the old realism has died. How can we have a relation with a God who cannot change?

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