Skabelsen 3/7 | "Lad der blive lys..." | Troels Nymann

Hovedpointer:

- Israelitternes naboer dyrkede himmellegemerne, også kaldet astrolatri.

- Israelitterne dyrker kun én Gud, også kaldet monolatri.

- Skabelsesberetningen er en polemisk tekst.

- Ateisme findes ikke.

Bibelhenvisninger:

Første Mosebog kapitel 1, vers 3

Andet Korintherbrev kapitel 4, vers 6

Links:

Heliopolis

Citater:

"Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship – be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or the Wiccan Mother Goddess, or the Four Noble Truths, or some inviolable set of ethical principles – is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It’s the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. On one level, we all know this stuff already. It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness. Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they’re evil or sinful, it’s that they’re unconscious. They are default settings."

(David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College commencement speech, 2005)

Spørgsmål:

- Hvad betyder det for den kristne tro, at der kun er én Gud?

- Hvorfor er skabelsesberetningen polemisk mod andre religioner og kulturer?

- Passer det, at der ikke findes ateister?

Vært: Troels Nymann

Produktion: Marlene Bay Holm

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